02-23-2025

Inspiration from YouTube video by Diving Ducks Crochet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPuvMYAmyRg
Blog to purchase pattern here.

Used scraps of cotton yarn and made scraps from fuller skeins of ILTC, YB cotton, Omega Sinfonia, Crafter’s Secret, and Premier Just Cotton. Yellow, gray, white, cream, orange, gold, brown, green. It was actually quite fun to make the magic ball.

02-24-2025

Beginning chain 38 was 27 cm/10 1/2” long.
Finished 43 rounds for 25cm/9 3/4” tall.
Width of bag flat: 12”

02-25-2025

Started on the handles when bag was 10” tall. I LOVE the handles on this plarn bag. I’ve decided to follow her instructions.
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Since I’m using cotton and not plarn, and my yarn is thinner, I skipped 15 sts for the handles. On the short strap, I chained 30, i.e., 5” from top of bag. On the long strap, I chained 45, i.e., 7” from top of bag. The short one could have been shorter, I think, but it’ll still work.

FINISHED MEASUREMENTS

Width of bag = 30.48 cm/12 inches.
Height of bag to bottom of handle = 25.4 cm/10 inches.
Height of longest strap = __ cm/__ inches.
Height of shorter strap = __ cm/__ inches.
Width of strap = __ cm/__ inches.

What I was tentatively shooting for (found in this Raffia Japanese Knot Bag pattern):
Width of bag = 33 cm/13 inches.
Height of bag = 22 cm/8.5 inches.
Height of longest strap = 26 cm/10 inches.
Height of shorter strap = 16 cm/6 inches.
Width of strap = 8 cm/3 inches.