craftgrrl | Large Skull Purse (crochet)

This is a commision piece for my sister, who flipped through the Happy Hooker book with me but couldn't decide on any of the purses there. She wanted a bigger purse, with skulls, rings at the straps, and a pocket. (There's a skein of yarn in the bag in the picture below. The last two are with an empty bag.)

The bag is 16" (40cm) wide and 12.5" (32cm) high, with a 32" (81cm) strap (not including the half-circle rings, which add another inch each side). The strap has black embroidery thread weaved on the inside to prevent stretching (3 strands, middle and sides).

I made the skulls using the Skullholder pattern, and then sewed them together (8 rectangles in all, 4 skulls per side). If I make this bag again, I'll do it in a round so I don't have to do all that sewing. The yarn is Bernat Camouflage in acrylic with Bernat White "satin" acrylic for the skulls. The pictures are a little dark despite brightening, but the camouflage is black, brown, dark green and light green.

The lining is chocolate brown, and the zipper is a darker brown jacket zipper, 40cm. There's also a pocket that can fit business cards, guitar picks, keys, lipgloss, and other little things. She saw it before I added in the lining and loved it, so I'm hoping she still loves it now that it's finished.

It took 1 full 170g skein of Camouflage plus some of a second, and 1 full 100g/166 yd skein of white plus a little from a second. So now I have a lot of leftover Camouflage and white, and lots of that lining left since she bought more than I asked her to. I'm not sure what else to do with the Camouflage.

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