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How Did I Knit My Jute Shoulder Bag?

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Hi!

How are you? Today I have something to show you 🙂 Yes, it is my favourite casual jute bag.  Below is the picture of my jute bag.

8T 1 First look

Hmm, I hope you liked it! OK, let me illustrate how I made it.

Requirements:

Single-point knitting needles

Coarse Jute yarn              about 750g

Metal beads (large)          about 20

Pattern

I chose a lace insert pattern for my bag (Pictured below, reference: A Reader’s Digest Step-by-step Guide to Sewing and Knitting. All the drawings are taken from the same book). For hands, I decided to use garter stitch. For the flap also I finalised garter stitch.

8T Desired Pattern

Starting to knit

I threaded the metal beads through the jute yarn. These beads were to place in the bag body.

I started to knit with single cast-on (44 stitches).

8T Single Cast-on

Bag body

Written direction of selected lace insert pattern is as follows:

Multiple of 2 sts

Rows 1 to 6: knit (i.e. garter stitches)

Rows 7 and 9: *yfwd, K 2 tog*

Rows 8 and 10: ybk, P 2 tog,*yrn, P 2 tog*

I have given some drawings for reference.

8T knit

8T yfwd

8T ybk

8T yrn

8T 8 purl

I repeated this pattern 3 times. I placed the metal beads randomly while making yfwd, ybk. Afterwards, I continued with garter stitch (multiple rows of knit) for next 30 rows. That was forming the bag bottom.Then I continued with the same lace insert pattern for the bag body:

Rows 1 and 3: *yfwd, K2tog*

Rows 2 and 4: ybk, Pog,*yrn, P2tog*

Rows 5 to 10: knit (i.e garter stitches)

I repeated the pattern 3 times.

Next, I chose plain cast-off to finish.

8T Plain Cast-off

Later, I joined the edges by crocheting.

Handles: 4 stitches (13th stitch to 16th stitch at 3nd row from the edge)

I used Garter stitch for the handles. 48 rows were required for desired length of each handle (close-up of handle is pictured below).

handle

Flap: 10 stitches (17th stitch to 26th stitch at 3nd row from the edge)

Again, I used garter stitch. By decreasing the number of stitches per row, I knitted a pointed flap. I kept the yarn end for tying (Pictured the flap below). I added another yarn as tying at the body.

Flap

Finishing

To add a 3rd dimension to the bag, I angled the bottom corners and crocheted. (picture)

Bottom

I added tyings to connect the sides of the bag (picture).

Tying

Bag looks differently when tied and when opened as shown (tied and opened images respectively).

final look

This is how I made my jute bag. Now it is time to share your opinion! So, scroll down to comment! May I leave for now?

Take care!

Bye until the next post!

Sindhu

A nature lover and dreamer who expresses herself as an artist, fashion designer and blogger. Persued B.Sc fashion design at Karavali College (Mangaluru University 2003 - 2006) with first rank. Former lecturer for fashion designing at Gloria College, Puttur for five years (2006-2011). Blogger since 2013.

27 Comments:

  1. Dr.Suvarnini Rao Konale
    May 12, 2013 at 11:21 pm

    It is just awesome..Looks so beautiful… Though i did not understand the details u have given…
    Keep going dear… I love to read your blog.

    Reply
  2. Shwetha Bhat
    May 14, 2013 at 11:39 am

    Clean and pretty 🙂

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  4. Ramonita
    May 25, 2013 at 9:44 pm

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  6. Nenita
    June 3, 2013 at 1:36 am

    Good job! Thanks for the post.

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  8. Roberto Ashmore
    June 10, 2013 at 1:16 pm

    Well done! Thanks for the note.

    Reply
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    June 13, 2013 at 7:52 pm

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  10. Mike Ohalloran
    June 18, 2013 at 1:53 pm

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    Reply
  11. Erlene Galimore
    June 18, 2013 at 2:42 pm

    Thank you for each of your labor on this web page. Have fun with the remaining portion of the year. You are performing a powerful job.

    Reply
  12. indrani
    October 3, 2013 at 11:07 pm

    Excellent work. you have a lot of patience!

    Reply
  13. Preethi Venugopal
    December 13, 2013 at 11:36 pm

    Loved it Sindhu… I am glad I stumbled onto Tantu through Indiblogger. Your blog is VERY interesting..:) Will pop in every now n then..:)

    Reply
  14. thesustainablehome
    February 5, 2014 at 8:37 pm

    Reblogged this on My Sustainable Home and commented:
    Jute Shoulder Bag – Knitting (this is beyond my basic “I can cast on” knitting abilities but I love it!)

    Reply

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