Whether you knit, crochet, or are bistitchual, you can join in this project and make yourself a set of mesh produce bags to use at the grocery store or farmer's market. Worked up in No. 10 crochet cotton, these stretchy bags weigh less than half an ounce and will help you stop collecting all those flimsy, hole-ridden plastic produce bags grocery stores offer.
Materials Needed:
Aunt Lydia's No. 10 Crochet Thread
Size 3 & Size 11 Knitting Needles, or Size B & Size J Crochet Hooks
Schedule:
Pattern is always FREE, so download it to knit or to crochet at your convenience.
May 4: Introductions & Yarn Photos
May 5: Cast on or do your initial chain and work the first side of the bag (to turning row).
May 6: Finish the second half of the bag.
May 7: Sew sides and add the drawstring.
May 8: Finish up and final photos.
Hope you'll be able to join in. Comment below to let us know you're on board!
Maria, thank you for the pattern, the event, the encouragement and the pdf!
Another sideways pic
I’m finished! Pic is sideways 🤷♀️
I would love to try the koi pond scarf! Thank you!
This is my Ravelry page. https://www.ravelry.com/projects/cpowell/mesh-produce-bag-set
Thank you so much! I never win anything so you made my day! definitely a pick me up in these trying days❤️
FRIDAY, MAY 8, 2020: PRIZE DAY!!!
Good morning and Happy Friday!
Hope everyone was able to finish their bags, or at least are on track to get them finished. Even though today is the last day for this KAL/CAL, this thread will stay open and you can always come back to check in, ask questions, or chat with each other.
I feel like this was a very successful week! I loved seeing everyone's work, and I hope you're happy with the way yours turned out. I had an idea this week that I may follow up on when I get through a test knit I'm doing for someone-- These bags would make great lingerie bags! They're 100% cotton so they can go through the washer and dryer. My daughter borrowed and lost one of my lingerie bags. (How do you lose something between the dryer and your room? Oh, right. Her room is a disaster.) I might replace it with one of these.
Anyway, on to prizes!
It doesn't look like anyone made more than one bag, right? If you did, let us know! So for now we just have two prizes to announce: The Grand Prize & Miss Congeniality!
Grand Prize (decided by www.WheelDecide.com) goes to...
@Cindi Gober!!! 😎😍🤗😃💟
Cindi, please choose a pattern from the KNIT Patterns or CROCHET Patterns menu above, as well as select an ebook to download from https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/MariaKeffler (scroll down to see the book list). Only the Drawn Series Boxed Set is not available as a prize.
Miss Congeniality was a tie between two people! Those people are...
@visgirl and @KelleJ!!! 🍭🍦🎇🎁🌺
Please choose either a pattern from the KNIT Patterns or CROCHET Patterns menu above, or pick out a card from the Greeting Cards section of the PAPER Brilliants menu. You can select either a ready-to-mail printed card or a download to print your own card (which you can reuse as often as you like!).
Congrats to the winners!
I hope everyone had fun this week. I know I did! Thanks so much for joining in! Our next project will be the Tyndal Mini Messenger Bag CAL in June:
If you don't crochet (yet), you've got five weeks to learn before the CAL! 😁
Have a great day and a great weekend, everyone! You're the cat's pyjamas!
M
No worries if you can't finish today! Sometimes life just requires a little slower pace. As long as you're having fun, that's the important thing!
Me too!
Sadly I’m not gonna finish today! But I will soon and then will post.
Nice job!
I am finished! I wish I would have made it longer.
They may be a nice gift!! Food is more appreciated now .
This is my finished product !
THURSDAY, MAY 7, 2020: Sew it together & make the drawstring.
(That's some quick thinking there, Bart!)
Good morning! After a disaster or two yesterday, hopefully everyone is back on track today! Today's job is to sew up the sides (or crochet them up if you're doing it that way) and finish the drawstring.
The drawstring (according to the pattern, anyway) is attached on one side, then runs through the eyelets around the top of the bag. So in the end you just have one loose string (rather than two) that you pull up to tighten. I like this design, because you will never lose your drawstring! But if you'd rather make a separate string and have two ends that you bow or tie, you can do it however you like!
If you end up making multiple bags in different sizes, I recommend either using different colors of thread for them (so you can easily recognize which one is small, large, etc.) or simply use a different color thread for the drawstring. Three of my bags are all green (the ones in the pattern photos) and I have no idea which is which when I pull them out at the grocery. When there's nothing in them they shrivel up and it's impossible to tell the difference between the sizes.
Is anyone on track to make more than one bag by tomorrow?
Also, could everyone please vote sometime today for "Miss Congeniality"? Who has been most encouraging, kind, and helpful this week? Just click that little brown circle in the lower right corner (the one with the dialogue bubble and three dots in it), select "+ New Chat" and then select (or search for) Wylde & Plumb. If you can't find Wylde & Plumb (I can't search for that myself, since it's me, but I think it should be there!) you can use mariakeffler.
Have a great day, and I can't wait to see your bags!
They both look great!
Mine looks the same size. I do hope it stretches!!