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10 Spring Market Bags

March 4, 2014 by Kym Terranova

10 Spring Market Bags


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
bird tote
2. Free as a bird tote – Strocel

 

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

 

Brighton tote
6. Brighton tote – Knitty

 

weekender tote
7. Weekender tote – A Beautiful Mess

 

crochet bag
8. Crochet bag – Attic24

 

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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Comments

  1. 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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Knit a Blanket with the Texture of a Ceiling

Knitwear designers can get inspiration from almost anything when it comes to re-creating a color scheme, an image or a texture in stitches. Sometimes the inspiration isn’t always obvious in the finished project, but sometimes it’s more literal. 

That’s the way it is with the Tin Ceiling Blanket from Purl Soho. Not just because the inspiration is in the name, but if you’ve ever seen one of these old ceilings you can see that the design of the blanket is quite similar to the pattern of the tin tiles. 

This is also a good example of the idea that you don’t have to use fancy stitch patterns or lots of color to make a big impact with your knits. This single-color blanket (designed by Gianna Mueller and inspired by a washcloth and towel set designed by Sandi Rosner) is made completely with knits and purls, other than slipped stitches at the beginning of rows to make neater edges. 

The pattern is written out row by row, but there’s also a chart, which means this project is a great opportunity to practice reading a chart where you can check your work against the written pattern if you need to. 

It comes in two sizes, a crib blanket and a throw. The yarn used in the sample is an organic cotton sold by the cone, which is a great way to get a large quantity of yarn and have fewer ends to weave in. In fact, you can knit either size of the blanket with just one cone of yarn, which isn’t inexpensive but makes you a great, sturdy, heirloom quality but still washable blanket you’ll use for years to come. (Of course you can use any sport weight yarn you like to make this blanket.)

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