Granny Bag Tutorial

I made this pattern a few weeks ago, and found I had some troubles figuring out the mouth/sides, so I set off on a mission to make a picture tutorial on how I did it. :)

Firstly:

  -The pattern can be found here. It's Pierrot Yarns 29-210-44 Striped Bag.

  -I honestly have no idea if how I did it is how the pattern calls for. However, it worked for me, and I'm hoping it'll work for you! 

 -Any crochet terms are written in US-terms. 

And on these notes, here we go!

Start off with a granny square. I did 20 rounds to get my desired bag length.

To make things easy, line the bag before working on the mouth/sides. The bag was too big to use a fabric square, so I completely destroyed creatively used a yellow pillowcase that's been sitting in the hall closet for quite a long time. 

Now, lets get started on the mouth part! sc once in each ch-1 space on one side of the granny square. The stitches are very loose, they become puffy, but it works, trust me! 

When you get to the end of that side: ch-1, turn, sc in each sc across. Keep doing rows until it's long enough to wrap around your handles. I did 6 rows. 

Next, make the mouth side on the opposite end of the granny square. So, you end up with this:

 Onto the sides! To start, crochet down the rows we just made. Once you get to the granny square part, sc in each middle dc of shell and ch-1 space. 

 Over, and over, and over again until it's long enough. I sc2tog during the tan round, to help pull the sides up, but that's completely optional. Repeat on the opposite side. 

 Then, for added cohesive-ness (yup, just made that a word!) I single crocheted all the way around.

Attach your handles, and there you go! A granny square bag! 

Happy Crocheting! :) 

(Edited: 1/26/2013) This used to be atadplaid.blogspot.com and I just changed the blog name. Tutorial is still my original one. :)