Saturday, April 9, 2011

Crochet: Granny Square Tote Bag Purse Part 3 of 6

I've got to undo this old bag that I don't want...and it's not going to be easy to undo this or unravel it. I think I might just have to start cutting unfortunately. Here's the base of my tote bag. It measures about 12 inches long and almost 7.5 inches wide. I think that's a good size for me. Now I am just going to try and figure out which method to use to connect and attach the squares. I was trying to figure out this one method, where you attach them as you go, but as you can see from Twitter, I just couldn't figure out how it was done. I think there are two other ways to attach these squares. I think one way is where you can see the border of the yarn around the squares, and the other one you aren't able to see it as clearly. Anyway, the next post about this purse, should be the last one, where it will be finished.

Friday, April 8, 2011

Crochet: Teaching Kids

I'm teaching one of the young boys at church how to crochet. They seem to like it, but you know kids, after a few minutes of this they will be bored. But it's okay. At least he can say he knows how to do something else besides getting in trouble. Sometimes he forgets to yarn over when he's doing these double crochets, but I coud tell he was really happy when he finally got it, and got it right.

Thursday, April 7, 2011

Crochet: Granny Square Tote Bag Purse Part 2 of 6

I actually have three squares altogether now. As I have mentioned on my Twitter (instead of clicking this link you can also just look on the side of the blog) and Facebook page, I wanted to try and connect the squares as I go, instead of connecting them one at a time, but I just don't get it. Even when I watched some demonstrations on YouTube, I just didn't get it. So, unfortunately, I am just going to have to make a bunch, and then connect them when I think I have made enough squares for a tote bag.