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Following the same idea as my
Crochet T-Shirt Yarn Bag, I made two more bags for Grandma's birthday to hold
books and/or
magazines. They'll need to lean on something, but it should look a bit more neat/interesting than the red
Sendik's bags that she has everywhere. The first bag was made from fabric strips. I made the mistake of using a lighter fabric toward the bottom (the white, yellow, green fabric), so the bag wants to collapse there. In a perfect world, I would have used
cotton for the whole bag. I considered adding an inner skeleton to the bag to make it sturdier, but I'll see what Grandma wants. It might be nice for them to be more flexible.
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The second bag is crocheted
t-shirt yarn. It is considerably sturdier than the fabric bag, though smaller. Overall, they both went well. I started the first bag was
double crochet, hoping to make the project go faster, but it made the bag a lot less stable. So, I took the whole thing except the bottom apart and started out.
Single crochet is way better! I used double crochet for my previous bag, but that really only worked out because it was t-shirt yarn. So, if you have t-shirts, I recommend those first (they're also flexible, which is way nicer to work with). But fabric worked great, too!
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