SUPPLY LIST
6 mm hook
Any Category 4 cotton yarn (Used: Caron One Pound in Off White plus some scrap yarn, this can be your choice)
Approx yardage: 450 y / 411 m
3 Large Wood Beads, Stitch Markers, Scissors & a Tapestry needle and some scrap yarn to make the tassel

FINISHED MEASUREMENTS
Bag portion is 13” wide x 15” high, handle height is approx 10.5”
GAUGE
6 rows x 10 stitches = 4” x 4” of CODC

DIFFICULTY LEVEL
Intermediate

PATTERN AND SIZING NOTES

• This crochet tote bag is made as one piece from the front bottom up. The bottom and main body of the bag are worked in a continuous spiral and the handles are worked on to the body of the bag.
• The stitch used here for the body of the bag is Cross Over Double Crochet. This means that you skip a stitch, do a double crochet and then do another double crochet back in the stitch you skipped so the two double crochets cross over each other. As this is worked in a continuous spiral instead of joined rows, the stitch count must be an odd number. The pattern below will explain how to get from an even number in working the SC bottom of the bag, to an odd number for completing the CODC body of the bag. The handles are worked in SC.
• Please note that, other than the handles, the bottom and main body of this bag are worked in a continuous spiral, not in joined rows. This means there are no seams in the bag 
• It is useful to use a stitch marker to mark the first stitch in a round, since we are working in a continuous spiral and not joined rows.
• For the bottom portion of the bag where we create a circle, I have written the patter with off-set increases in different stitches in each round, so that you don’t create a hexagon shape, it will maintain more of a circle shape.
• The CH 1 at the beginning of the bottom portion and on the handle joins are not counted as stitches.
• Stitch count for each round will be indicated in parentheses ( ) at the end of the row.