Are you ready for some travels? This pattern is part of a collection of 9 tiles with nine individual accompanying designs. You can buy them separately or get them all at a great discount in the Travelling East Collection. Enjoy!

There has been a thing missing in the Travelling East Collection! It is a proper bag. If there is one thing we can do with afghan blocks, it is turning them into all sorts of bag shapes. Here is Yuksan, the sixth tile in this series.

Each tile in the collection comes with an accompanying triangle (to give you the freedom to use your squares as diamonds in cushions or blankets). It also comes with an original design to showcase the many possibilities we have to turn these tiles into different type of objects. Some will be small and simple, some will be larger and require some more time. The collection of patterns will give you options and suggestions.

The design accompanying the Yuksan tile is a shoulder bag. I have also added two types of straps one can make with this bag, one using an interesting foundation cord, the other dipping into Tunisian crochet (with a regular crochet hook). And this design makes use of the triangle as a part of the bag, why design all these triangles if not to use them eh? Enjoy!

Gauge:
Gauge is not crucial for this pattern, as long as your tile lies flat. However, different yarns give different gauges:
Aran weight: 8sc x 8 rows = 5cm / 2”.
Bulky weight: 6sc x 7 rows = 5cm / 2”.

Hooks:
√ Depending on yarn choice, 5mm/H-8 or 6mm/J-10 crochet hook (Adapt hook to yarn used).

Notions
√ Tapestry needle, stitch markers.
√ Button to close the flap to the front
√ Optional: fabric for lining

Yarn:
√ A #4 medium (Aran, 8wpi) or #5 bulky (7wpi) per tile:
• approx 20m/21yd (C1).
• approx 25m/27yd (C2).
• approx 20m/21yd (C3).
√ The bordeaux/variegated bulky weight sample bag used 3 skeins of Cigno Nero Bengi (C1, colour 6, 45% acrylic, 44% polyamide, 11% mohair; 50g ca 75m/82yds) and one ball of Katia Azteca Milrayas (C2, colour 706, 53% wool, 47% acrylic; 100g ca 180m/197yds).
√ The blue shoulder bag was made in Aran weight leftover wool and acrylic in 3 colours per tile.
√ The orange and red shaded, Aran weight sample tile used Katia Planet in colours 4002 (C1), 3972 (C2) and 3971 (C3).

Stitches:
The pattern comes with a special stitches section and lots of explanations on techniques
Sc – single crochet
Ss – slip stitch
Dc (dcRnd/dcR/dcCoCh) – double crochet (see special stitches
Tr (trRnd/trR/trCoCh) – treble crochet (see special stitches)
Fptr (fptrRnd/fptrR) – front post treble crochet (see special stitches)
Tss – Tunisian simple stitch (see special stitches)
Edge st – Edge stitch (see special stitches)

Size:
depending on yarn and hook choices:
√ The blue shoulder bag was made with a 5mm/H-8 crochet hook and measures 25x25cm/10x10”.
√ The bordeaux/variegated shoulder bag a 6mm/J-10 crochet hook and measures 32x32cm/12½x12½”.
√ The shoulder straps measure 90cm / 35½” long.

Pattern includes:
Written pattern, schemas, charts, special stitches explanations, pattern notes and technique explanations and photo tutorials and colour and blanket schemes and suggestions.

Difficulty:
Intermediate

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