Tunisian Sampler Purse 2
Finished
June 13, 2025
July 16, 2025

Tunisian Sampler Purse 2

Project info
Crochet
BagPurse / Handbag
Me
Small
Hooks & yarn
3.5 mm (E)
2,296 yards
Kettle Dyed Yarns Lumen
1 skein = 437.0 yards (399.6 meters), 100 grams
Green
Lancaster Yarn Shop in Intercourse, Pennsylvania
June 11, 2025
Kettle Dyed Yarns Lumen
1 skein = 437.0 yards (399.6 meters), 100 grams
Pink
Lancaster Yarn Shop in Intercourse, Pennsylvania
June 11, 2025
aurifil Mako Thread
Thread, size 50wt
1 ball = 1422.0 yards (1300.3 meters)
5013
Black
123stitch.com
July 4, 2025
Notes

Someday I’ll write down an actual pattern and post it. Basically you just make a wide tube with Tunisian in-the-round technique, using a double sided hook and two different yarns. Switch to a new type of stitch every 5 rows or so, try to alternate between curling and non-curling types. Once your bag is approximately half the intended height, or you run out of stitches you know, then exchange your forward pass yarn with your backwards pass yarn and repeat the entire first half. This gives you all the same patterns again, but switches the foreground/background colors. Once the tube is done, use a frilly cast off. Then, make a thin flat band, very long. Long enough to wrap all the way around the tube height-wise, with enough extra to make a good strap, and then enough extra again to match shoulder-width. Sew the middle section of the band to one open end of the tube, such that it is closed off, and then up either side. Take both free ends of the band, overlap them shoulder-width, then sew the overlap area together. Then it’s done!!

07-07-2025

For this one, the top half is green-on-pink and the bottom half is pink-on-green. The strap is made in flat stitch. The bands of stitches on the tube are like this:

  • Bind off in pattern
  • Wrapped reverse stitch
  • 2×2 knit and wrapped reverse stitches.
  • Simple stitch to back loop
  • Offset cross stitch
  • Smock stitch
  • Knit stitch
  • Honeycomb stitch
  • Full stitch
  • Reverse stitch
  • Simple stitch
  • Repeat all with the colors swapped
  • A big chain, slip stitched to make round, with stitches picked up from the back bumps

In addition to the above mats/equipment, I also used:

  • Size 10 Tulip bent tip tapestry needle
  • Size 26 John James gold-plated tapestry needle
  • 50wt Aurifil cotton Mako thread #BMK50-5013
  • 5 OSY Tuscarora Mills cotton/linen dimity weave fabric #107-N
  • Local beeswax
  • Iron, ironing board
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Finished
June 13, 2025
July 16, 2025
 
About this pattern
Personal pattern (not in Ravelry)
About this yarn
by Kettle Dyed Yarns
Fingering
50% Merino, 50% Silk
437 yards / 100 grams

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  • Project created: June 15, 2025
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