ta-da! finished my orange purse!

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(x-posted to my journal, craftgrrl & crochet)

Hi hello again! As promised, here are pictures of the finished crocheted orange purse I made. I finished it yesterday after much frustration. So first let's go over the history, shall we? First, I made a grid and wrote a pattern. Then I worked it and it looked all funky and the pattern was wrong. I gave up, bjorkdoll (who this purse is very much inspired by) said to go at it again, so I did. I re-wrote the pattern, asked the mod to remove the old pattern, and I worked it again. Came across the realization that one line of the pattern was STILL wrong and I had messed up in the middle, unravelled hours of work, went at it again. Then finally worked the strap, ran out of green yarn so had to do the stripes differently from what I wanted. Stitched it all together; and I did my SCs really tight so my hand was hurtin' so badly after weaving in all those ends.. but here is the uh, fruit of my labor, or something. =)












ORANGE PURSE
© 2003 mmm-fruit!
inspired by bjorkdoll (myheadphones.org)

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MAIN PURSE BODY

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NOTES:
1. when changing colors, use the carry-along method to bring yellow yarn across each row.
2. every other row is a right side. for example, i started with ROW 1 = wrong, ROW 2 = right, ROW 3 = wrong, ROW 4 = right.
3. carry the yarn along the WRONG side so it is not visible.
4. after finishing the first side of the bag (when you are just doing rows of yellow and orange alone), be sure to leave a VERY LONG TAIL when cutting the orange and green yarns. you will be using the long tail to slip-stitch through the fabric to create a chain-border of green around the leaves and a chain-border of orange around the orange.
5. when pattern says "front loops only" and "back loops only", this is so the fabric will fold where needed to form the two sides and bottom of the purse.

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with yellow, ch 29.
row 1-3: sc in each chain across (28 sc), ch 1 & turn
row 4: 16 yellow sc, 2 green sc, 10 yellow sc, ch 1 & turn
row 5: 11 yellow sc, 1 green sc, 16 yellow sc, ch 1 & turn
row 6: 15 yellow sc, 2 green sc, 11 yellow sc, ch 1 & turn
row 7: 12 yellow sc, 1 green sc, 15 yellow sc, ch 1 & turn
row 8: 15 yellow sc, 1 green sc, 1 yellow sc, 3 green sc, 8 yellow sc, ch 1 & turn
row 9: 7 yellow sc, 6 green sc, 4 orange sc, 11 yellow sc, ch 1 & turn
row 10: 10 yellow sc, 6 orange sc, 5 green sc, 7 yellow sc, ch 1 & turn
row 11: 6 yellow sc, 4 green sc, 9 orange sc, 9 yellow sc, ch 1 & turn
row 12: 8 yellow sc, 12 orange sc, 2 green sc, 6 yellow sc, ch 1 & turn
row 13-17: 8 yellow sc, 12 orange sc, 8 yellow sc, ch 1 & turn
row 18: 9 yellow sc, 10 orange sc, 9 yellow sc, ch 1 & turn
row 19: 10 yellow sc, 8 orange sc, 10 orange sc, ch 1 & turn
row 20: 11 yellow sc, 6 orange sc, 11 yellow sc, ch 1 & turn
row 21-25: 28 yellow sc across, ch 1 & turn (switch to orange)

row 26: working in FRONT LOOPS ONLY - 28 orange sc, ch 1 & turn
row 27-31: 28 orange sc across, ch 1 & turn. (on last row, switch to yellow)

row 32: working in FRONT LOOPS ONLY - 28 yellow sc, ch 1 & turn
row 33-36: 28 yellow sc across, ch 1 & turn
row 37: 11 yellow sc, 6 orange sc, 11 yellow sc, ch 1 & turn
row 38: 10 yellow sc, 8 orange sc, 10 yellow sc, ch 1 & turn
row 39: 9 yellow sc, 10 orange sc, 9 yellow sc, ch 1 & turn
row 40-44: 8 yellow sc, 12 orange sc, 8 yellow sc, ch 1 & turn
row 45: 6 yellow sc, 2 green sc, 12 orange sc, 8 yellow sc, ch 1 & turn
row 46: 9 yellow sc, 9 orange sc, 4 green sc, 6 yellow sc, ch 1 & turn
row 47: 7 yellow sc, 5 green sc, 6 orange sc, 10 yellow sc, ch 1 & turn
row 48: 11 yellow sc, 4 orange sc, 6 green sc, 7 yellow sc, ch 1 & turn
row 49: 8 yellow sc, 3 green sc, 1 yellow sc, 1 green sc, 15 yellow sc, ch 1 & turn
row 50: 15 yellow sc, 1 green sc, 12 yellow sc, ch 1 & turn
row 51: 11 yellow sc, 2 green sc, 15 yellow sc, ch 1 & turn
row 52: 16 yellow sc, 1 green sc, 11 yellow sc, ch 1 & turn
row 53: 10 yellow sc, 2 green sc, 16 yellow sc, ch 1 & turn
row 54-56: 28 yelow sc across, ch 1 & turn. on last row, finish and fasten off.

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BORDER

this is why you either left a realllly long tail.

stick your hook through the fabric from the right side (so that it's poking out at the wrong side) somewhere along the edge of the green leaf/step (preferably, near where you ended the last green stitch). pull a loop through and slip stitch a border around the leaf and stem.

repeat this for the orange border.

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STRAP
ch 7.
row 1-25: sc across in yellow (6 sc), ch 1 & turn
row 26-100: sc aross in color of your choice (yellow, orange, green, striped, whatever), ch 1 & turn.
row 101-125: sc across in yellow, ch 1 & turn. on last row, finish and fasten off.

NOTE; the strap pattern is basic. you can do whatever you want with it. you can make it longer, shorter, do it all in orange, yellow, striped, etc.. :)

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now all you have to do is stitch the strap to the purse and weave in your ends & you're set!

happy halloween everyone, btw :)