20 * Fun Crochet Magazine 20

What do you need?

• Straw bag with a circumference of 84 cm, 21 cm tall

• Scheepjes Colour Crafter yarn, black Ede 1002, white

Barneveld 1005, and yellow ochre Eindhoven 1114

• Scheepjes Softy yarn: yellow 489

• Scheepjes Panda yarn: white 581

• Scheepjes Softfun yarn: denim green 506

• Scheepjes Twinkle yarn: gold 941

• 5 mm crochet hook

• Fiberfill stuffing for the bees

• Gold-colored beads (rocaille beads)

• Keychain with ring (optional)

Yarn from Scheepjes.com

Individual bobbles

For this bag, you’ll be using the bobble stitch in addition to the usual

stitches. Crochet the bobble stitch as follows: Draw up the yarn

through your work so that you have a loop on the hook. Yarn over

hook, insert the hook in the same spot and draw the yarn up, rep

this 2 more times: you now have 7 loops on your hook. Yarn over

hook and draw the yarn through the 7 loops, crochet 1 ch. Insert the

hook into the work, draw up the yarn and end with 1 sl st. Pull the

thread tight and fasten off.

Bag

Crochet the bag with sc around and from the top down. Crochet a

starting chain that fits around the circumference of the bag. Don’t

crochet too loosely, but it shouldn’t be too tight either. Rnd 1-13:

Crochet 6 cm sc with black, change to yellow ochre. Rnd 14-18:

Crochet 2 cm sc, change to Barneveld white. Rnd 19-35: Crochet

7 cm sc, change to yellow. Rnd 36: Crochet sc with gold, Rnd

37-40: Crochet 1 cm sc with yellow, change to black. Rnd 41-42:

Crochet 1 cm sc, change to yellow ochre. Rnd 43-47: Crochet 2 cm

sc, change to black. Rnd 48-53: Crochet 2 cm sc. The total height

of your work should now be 21 cm. Fasten off all threads and slide

your crocheted work over the bag. Crochet another 2 rounds of

sc on top of the beginning round. Skip a couple of sc where the

straps are. Continue with yellow ochre. Rnd 1: 1 sc, *5 ch, skip 4 sc,

1 sc*, rep from *to*. Rnd 2: Crochet around the ch-loop from the

previous round *1 sc, 1 hdc, 1 dc, 1 hdc, 1 sc, rep from * to*.

Bee-utiful

Transform a regular straw bag into a bright, summery bag with flowers,

bees and fun bobbles. You’ll ‘bee’ the buzz of the town with this bag!

PIMP YOUR BAG

Tip! If your crocheted work doesn’t fit

snugly around the bag, you can sew the fabric

in place on the bag with a couple of stitches.

Finishing the bag

Crochet a gold chain onto Rnd 14. Crochet a Panda white chain

onto Rnd 18. Crochet a gold chain onto Rnd 47. Crochet yellow

bobbles around the bag spaced 3.5 cm apart onto Rnd 45. >>

Accessories

Flower (10 x)

With white, make a MR. Rnd 1: 18 sc in the MR, join with 1 sl st. Rnd

2: *3 ch, 1 dc in the next sc, 3 ch, 1 sl st in the next sc*. This is the

first petal. Rep 5 more x from *to* (= 6 flower petals in total). Fasten

off. Continue with yellow. Crochet from the middle 1 sc around the

sc from the previous round, skip 1 sc, 1 sc, rep until you have made

9 sc, fasten off.

Leaf

With green, make a chain with 9 ch. Crochet 1 sc in to the 2nd ch

from the hook, 1 hdc in the next ch, then 1 dc, 1 tr, 1 dc, 1 hdc, 1 sc,

2 ch and continue on the other side of the chain. Crochet into the

8 stitches: 1 sc, 1 hdc, 1 dc, 1 tr, 1 dc, 1 hdc and 1 sc. Fasten off, leaving

a long tail. Make as many leaves as you want in the same way and

sew them underneath the flowers.

Bee

Head

With black, make a MR. Rnd 1: 6 sc in the MR. Rnd 2: 2 sc in every

sc (= 12). Rnd 3: 12 sc. Rnd 4: sc2tog (= 6). Fasten off, leaving a long

tail. Stuff the head.

Body

With yellow ochre, make a MR. Rnd 1: 6 sc in the MR. Rnd 2: 2 sc

in every sc (= 12), change to gold. Rnd 3: 1 sc, 2 sc in next sc (= 18),

change to yellow ochre. Rnd 4: 18 sc, change to gold. Rnd 5: 18 sc,

change to yellow ochre. Rnd 6: 1 sc, sc2tog, rep (= 12). Rnd 7:

sc2tog (= 6), fasten off. Stuff the body. Sew the open sides of the

head and the body together.

Wings (2 X)

Make a MR with gold. Rnd 1: 6 sc in the MR, turn. Rnd 2: 2 hdc in

every sc, fasten off. Sew the wings onto the body.

Finishing the bee

Sew 2 gold-colored beads (rocaille beads) onto the bee’s head for

the eyes.

Finishing

Crochet 10 flowers and leaves and 8 bees (with an optional extra

bee for the keychain). Attach the leaves underneath the flowers and

attach them to the black part of the bag (= Rnd 1-13). Sew the bees

onto the white part of the bag (= Rnd 19-35). Using the gold, crochet

several bobbles among the flowers and with black and white several

bobbles around the bees. Attach the extra bee to the keychain

if you are using a keychain. To prevent the crocheted work from

shifting, sew the top and bottom part of the crocheted bag to the

straw bag. Fold the black bottom edge over as you do this.