How do you crochet together?
October 18th, 2009 | 
Author: I started learning crochet yesterday, i want to make a bag without sewing the edges, how do you crochet together?
Sewing the edges is not really that hard. All you do is buy a plastic needle that has an eye big enough to put your yarn through it. Then you just sew the edges together going through the outermost loop of the two sides held together.
Plan B is to use your crochet hook to crochet the sides together. Just pull up a loop through the two sides held together. Keep that loop on your hook and go down through the two sides again. Yarn over and pull the loop up. You will end up with a chain stitch that keeps the two sides together.
Plan C is to crochet in the round, as one of the answers suggests.
Since you are a beginner, it might just be easier to make a rectangle and then bend it in half and sew the two sides together.
Once you have the bag constructed, you might want to put a drawstring on the top. Just put a row of double crochet stitches all the way around and join. End it off. Then you can find a ribbon and put it through the double crochet stitches, in and out (maybe skipping every two stitches or more, depending on your choice). Now you have a Victorian style handbag!
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Your best option for that would be to crochet in the round. However, if you are new to crochet, that could be somewhat difficult. Here is a list of free crochet patterns that can be found online. You’ll have to sort through them to find something you like–some are bags that have to be assembled, some are not. I hope you find something to make.
http://www.crochetpatterncentral.com/directory/bags_totes_purses.php
Email me if you have questions.
~Happy Crocheting!~
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You start by chaining a few stitches and then doing a slip stitch to join. See the first link I provided if you don’t know how to do a slip stitch.
You would work as many rows as you want increasing every row until it is the size you want for the bottom. When you stop increasing you would then get your straight sides until it is as tall as you wanted. Then it’s a matter of how you want the top to look, drawstring, flap, straps: that’s what the second link is for. It will provide you with a variety of crocheted bag patterns you can choose from.
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http://www.crochet911.com/crochet911.html#c2
http://www.crochetpatterncentral.com/directory/bags.php
Sewing the edges is not really that hard. All you do is buy a plastic needle that has an eye big enough to put your yarn through it. Then you just sew the edges together going through the outermost loop of the two sides held together.
Plan B is to use your crochet hook to crochet the sides together. Just pull up a loop through the two sides held together. Keep that loop on your hook and go down through the two sides again. Yarn over and pull the loop up. You will end up with a chain stitch that keeps the two sides together.
Plan C is to crochet in the round, as one of the answers suggests.
Since you are a beginner, it might just be easier to make a rectangle and then bend it in half and sew the two sides together.
Once you have the bag constructed, you might want to put a drawstring on the top. Just put a row of double crochet stitches all the way around and join. End it off. Then you can find a ribbon and put it through the double crochet stitches, in and out (maybe skipping every two stitches or more, depending on your choice). Now you have a Victorian style handbag!
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Been crocheting since 1971. Learned how in France. Am an American, so had to learn it all over again on coming home. Directions from the UK/Canada are different than USA directions.
The easiest way to do this it this. Make a chain as long as it would have to be to make the bag. If the bag is 50 stitches in the front then make it 100 and slip stitch in the first stitch of the chain and continue to crochet the 100 stitches until the bag is as long as you want it. When you have done that fold the bag and stitch through both the 50 stitches in the front and back at one time. If you need any further instructions e-mail me.
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