#needleworkmonday :: The making of a breakfast knot bag

Helllooo friends!

Happy #NeedleworkMonday, wherever you are! 😊🌏

Last week, I shared with you about my breakfast knot bag in the process. It is now completed! (Yay! It feels good to use up yarn to make stuffs that we can use - most importantly, to make room for new yarns 😁)

I kind of crocheted this without a specific pattern. Let me roughly share with you what I did:

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(1) With the dark grey yarn, I started with an oval base, starting with 15 chains and then built the base of the bag with HDCs all across the chains following the pattern I googled for an oval base such as this. After about 3 to 4 rows in height, I changed to the red+silver yarn and crocheted across depending on my mood.

Some rows I did just 1HDC all across the chains, while some rows I did 1SC all across the chains. I also decided to play a bit at some rows and I did 3HDCs in a single chain and skipped 2 chains and continued all across the remaining chains.
(If you would like to try this, you can crochet any design and any way you like. This is a design-free bag 😊. The fundamental methodology is the same for any design, shape, colour and pattern.)

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(2) Then, for the fun of it, I also tried crocheting with the 2 different yarns to create some 'spots' pattern at the bottom of the bag, using the red + silver yarn as the main colour.

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(3) Once I reached the height that I want, I went back to the dark grey yarn and did about 2 rows of SCs across the chains, joined by slip stitch. Once I am at row 3, I roughly measured the center of the bag and slip stitched 6 chains to create a "hole" to enable the handle to go through - which creates the "knot" effect for the bag.

At the opposite side of the "hole", I crocheted the handle to fit my wrist and sewed the end of the crocheted handle to the beginning of the handle to create the "wristlet". After that, I weaved in all the ends with a darning needle.

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(4) For the lining, I used some scrap linen-ish greenish-blue fabrics that I had from a pants that I altered earlier. I drew the shape of the bag's base and cut out the base as well as the body of the lining using a darker shade.

I also added a little pocket using a lighter shade of the scrap linen-ish fabric.

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(5) With the sewing machine, I sewed the pieces together, beginning with the pocket and the body of the lining first.

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(6) Once the body was done, I pinned the body to the oval shaped base, starting with the 4 main sides to ensure the shape is correct against the body. Then I added more pins across to make sure the fabric doesn't move out of place when you sew them down.

I also sewed the divide for the pocket of the lighter shade fabric (I forgot to sew it earlier).

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(7) After the lining is completed, I pinned the lining to the bag (also starting with the main 4 sides before adding more pins).

I decided to hand sew , also for the fun of it but you can machine sew them with a similar coloured threads so that they don't show on either side.

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(8) Once done, I tested it by putting my little breakfast biscuit packets and a yoghurt drink into the little pocket. Then, I slipped the wristlet through the hole to close it. It works! Yay! 🙃

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Thank you again to both @crosheille and @crystalize for hosting this wonderful #NeedleworkMonday.

Thank you for reading my post! I appreciate it much!