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Four Online Tote Bag Tutorials to Get You Ready For the Challenge

Four More Tote Bag Projects for the Hook and Needle Crowd

Michaela Murphy, contributor

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The pattern for this amazing English Garden Felted Carpetbag is available for free at Straw.com

Courtesy of Straw.com/Crystal Palace Yarns

Go green with style. This quick-to-knit market bag pattern by Elisa is available for free at Purlbee.

Courtesy of Purlbee

Dances With Wools calls this yarn color 'sugar 'n cream' and this dreamy 'Cottage Bag' pattern is free at their site.

Courtesy Dances With Wools

The pattern for this amazing English Garden Felted Carpetbag is available for free at Straw.com

Photo: Courtesy of Straw.com/Crystal Palace Yarns

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It is absolutely amazing how many great tote bag patterns there are on the web. I was already excited about our challenge but when I got a look at these..whoa! This post is for the knitting and crochet contenders and if these projects don't get your fingers itching... well I don't know what will.

First, here are two awesome how-to projects for knitted tote bags:

• Straw.com and Crystal Palace Yarns have a wide range of free knitting and crochet patterns (lots of bags) but when I saw the English Garden Felted Carpetbag by Terry L. Ross, I was ready to drop everything and get going.
• Time is definitely on your side with this quick knit, market bag, by Italian knitter Elisa at Purlbee.

And for the masters with a hook, two wonderful crochet projects:

• This free pattern offered by Marlo's Crochet Corner features a lovely and large 19"x15" crochet tote.
• You are going to love, love, love this 'Cottage Bag' pattern at Dances With Wools.
  

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Comments (6)

mama50 writes: Hi your bag is beautiful,Best wishes,
Wanda
Posted: 6:32 am on November 3rd

Love_it writes: I so, love this bag. Wish we had more example of florals, leaves etc that are nature bound in designs to knit or crochet. Thanks.
Posted: 2:33 pm on January 20th

busyfingers writes: I made one of these purses and won the Champion prize at our local fair. Check out my entry in the flowers contest to see it. It was easy to make except for the handles and I just I-Corded a handle instead. Instructions were great.
Posted: 5:19 pm on September 28th

LauraMM writes: Great links...
Posted: 11:52 pm on August 4th

SistaSue writes: THANKS these are great patterns, there's just too many projects and too little time....
Posted: 5:48 pm on July 30th

katknit writes: Thanks so much for linking to Dances With Wools! Love this site, just joined today and will visit often.
Best,
Linda
Posted: 9:44 pm on July 8th

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