Pattern uses suggested hook size for the yarn used in pattern (LB 24/7 Cotton) : 4.5mm
My yarn suggested hook : 5.5mm
Actually using : 6mm, b/c I have tight tension

• 3/11 : Started project. Using Mineral Springs. Completed R1. (47m)

This first step was a beast. I don’t work TR very often, and I had a hard time keeping the foundation chain I was working into from getting twisted. I worked into both top loops of the foundation chain in the hopes it’d help keep it straighter.

~ R2-8 (68m)
• 3/12 : R9-17 (88m)
• 3/13 : R18-20 (26m)
• 3/14 : R21-29 (87m)
• 3/15 : R30-31, & most of R32 (25m)
~ Ran out of Mineral Springs a few blocks from completing R32. Switched to Surf Spray.
~ Completed R32-34; bag net complete. Started cinching 1st side; Completed R1-6 of 1st side, switched to 5.5mm hook at R4 for the HDC rows (100m)
• 3/16 : R7-9 of 1st side (9m)
• 3/18 : R1-9 of 2nd side, + start of R1 of straps (79m)
~ Again, used 6mm for R1-3, then switched to 5.5mm for the HDC rows starting at R4.
• 3/19 : Using a 6mm again. Completed R1 of strap + half of R2. (41m)
~ I’ll have to frog what I did for R2 though b/c I didn’t read the directions properly
~ Frogged R2 back to start, redid up to sc through first ch strap, got frustrated with sc into ch’s. Frogged all the way back to R1 to the point right before the 1st ch strap. (120m)
~ Completed R1 + R2 x2. (80m)
• 3/20 : Completed bag (56m)
~ Switched back to 5.5mm for R3-4 of Straps.

Total Time : 826m / 13h 46m
~ I think I definitely could’ve done this a bit quicker. Working into the chains gave me a lot of trouble. If I had started with a FSC to give me a little stability that would’ve helped. And I ended up frogging and redoing quite a bit because I didn’t pay close enough attention to the pattern.
~ It is a HUGE bag. If I were to make it again I would cut the size down by perhaps a third. But I can still see myself using this full size one.

Changes :
~ For Round 1 of the Straps I did 75 FSC instead of 74 ch.
~ Did Round 2 of the Straps (the decrease round) twice.
~ The 2nd time I did Round 2 I worked BLO along the actual Strap portions.
~ Worked Round 3 of the Straps BLO along the actual Strap portions.