Create your own cotton handbag with round bamboo handles using The Bamboo Handle Bag crochet pattern by DCrochet Malta.

This digital PDF contains 7 pages of written instructions, with photos showing handle attachment and guidance for an optional fabric lining with an inside pocket.

• Skill level: Advanced beginner
• Language: English
• Crochet terminology: US
• Hook: 5 mm

The bag is worked from the bottom up in joined rounds, starting with an oval single crochet base. The body uses double crochet, finished with a single crochet border and attached round handles.

Materials:
• Blue cotton yarn — 3 strands
• White Melissa Lana Perlés No. 8 cotton thread — 1 strand
• Hold all 4 strands together throughout
• Two round bamboo or wooden handles, approximately 15 cm in diameter
• Stitch markers, scissors and a yarn needle
• Optional lining fabric, pocket fabric and sewing supplies

Gauge:
14 double crochet stitches = 10 cm.
14 double crochet rounds = approximately 17 cm.
Measure with all 4 strands held together and the fabric relaxed.

Finished measurements:
Approximately 28 cm wide × 23 cm high without handles, or 33 cm high including handles.

This listing is for the digital crochet pattern.

You may sell finished bags in small quantities with credit to DCrochet Malta. Please do not copy, share, redistribute or resell the pattern.

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