10 Spring Market Bags

March 4, 2014 by Kym Terranova

Despite the wintery weather reports, spring is just around the corner and so are the farmers markets! Whether you are visiting the markets weekly for fresh foods, or stopping by a roadside stand on your way home from work, having a reusable bag with you is a must. We’ve rounded up ten adorable patterns ranging from mesh to weekender styles that will get you through market season and beyond. Most can do double duty as beach, diaper, and school carryalls. Better get started soon- you may find you want to make them all!

beach_bag — 1. Summer beach bag – Let’s Knit

girlfriend market tote — 3. Girlfriend market tote – Sugar Bunny Boulevard

DIY Birkin tote — 4. DIY Birkin Tote – Thrift Dee

mesh bag — 5. Crochet Mesh Bag – All About Ami

weekender tote — 7. Weekender tote – A Beautiful Mess

make it local origami bag — 9. Make It Local: Origami Bags – WhipUp

iron on typographic tote — 10: Iron- on Typographic Tote – How About Orange

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Donna H says
March 5, 2014 at 5:12 am
I love all these bag designs, especially the knit ones. I’ve recently started “recycling” old canvas tote bags by decorating them with knit flowers. I love the results 🙂 I’ve posted some photos and directions at http://purl3agony.hubpages.com/hub/Free-Knitting-Pattern-Knit-a-Field-of-Flowers-to-Decorate-and-Recycle-a-Tote-Bag

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How to Make a Mermaid Shaker Card

Continuing on with our celebration of MerMay this week is a stunning Mermaid shaker card from Mindy. If you don’t know about MerMay it happens each year in May where crafters and creators make Mermaid themed arts and crafts and share them on Instagram and other social media platforms under the hashtag #MerMay. This week I’ve shared a big post with lots of handmade Mermaid card ideas as well as a FREE Mermaid digital stamp so be sure to check those out!

And today here’s a tutorial from Mindy using stamps and dies from Lawn Fawn to create a super fun interactive shaker card. The stamped Mermaids were colored with Copic markers and she used colored ink pads to stamp out the solid coral and seaweed stamps, die cutting all the images. The background has die cut waves along with the die cut frame over the top, both ink blended with an ombre’ of blue ink pads. She filled her shaker with iridescent beads, sequins and stars and also included a heat embossed sentiment in the middle of the card.

You can watch her video tutorial over on the Lawn Fawn blog.

-Heather

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