Flowers of Spring Bag

The Flowers of Spring Bag is a beautifully textured bag, made with unique granny squares in gorgeous pastel shades, perfect for spring and summer.

It works up fast and it can be a great stash buster project too if you have some spare cotton yarn to use.

**Special thanks to my testers: **Gina Brophy and Karen Burke

Difficulty: Advanced Beginner/intermediate

To make this pattern, you need to know:

• magic ring
• chain
• slip
• stitch
• single crochet
• single crochet back loop only
• back post single crochet
• half double crochet
• front post half double crochet
• double crochet
• two double crochet cluster stitch
• treble crochet
• popcorn stitch
• picot stitch

Size:

The body of the bag:

38 cm/15” wide
28 cm/11” tall, measured on tallest point
19 cm/7.5” tall in the middle, measured on shortest point

Handles:

41 cm/16” long
2.5 cm/1” wide

Materials needed:

• 3.5 mm (E) Hook
• Color 1: 120 yards / 110 meters (100 grams)
• Color 2: 120 yards / 110 meters (100 grams)
• Color 3: 120 yards / 110 meters (100 grams) of Dk weight 100% cotton yarn
{I used Hobbii Baby Cotton Organic Midi in Mint-09 (Color 1), Light Rose-10 (Color 2) and Eucalyptus-11 (Color 3)}
or alternatively you can use any other Dk 100% cotton yarn
• Yarn needle for weaving in ends
• Scissors
• Stitch markers
• IMPORTANT: You have to block your squares before joining them together!*