Colorful bobbles sling bag - free crochet pattern

 

Today's free pattern is a cute little sling bag for your kids or yourself. Take out those leftover yarns that you have in your stash and pick up a suitable hook. I used sport weight yarn in one main color and 3 complementing colors along with a 3.5 mm crochet hook. 

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Materials Needed:

Sport weight yarns in small quantities. I used grey along with pink, green and yellow. 

Crochet hook size 3.5 mm

1 inch diameter button

yarn needle

Size

The bag measures 7 inches wide and less than 7 inches high excluding the strap

Stitches/Abbreviations used:

[ ] - work instructions within parenthesis as a set as many times as required

ch - chain

st/sts - stitch/stitches

sl st - slip stitch

sc - single crochet

dc - double crochet 

3dc cluster - double crochet 3 sts worked together in the same stitch

Instruction

Round 1: Using MC (main color), ch 34, 2 dc in 4^th ch from hook, dc in rest of the chs across except last, 5 dc in last ch, dc in next 29 ch on the other side, 2 dc in last ch. Join with a sl st to the 3^rd ch at the beginning of round. (68 sts) (skipped 3 ch at the beginning counts as 1^st st)

Round 2: Ch 3 (counts as 1^st st), 2 dc in next st, dc in next 31 sts, 2 dc in next st, dc in next st, 2 dc in next st, dc in next 31 sts, 2 dc in next st. Join with a sl st to 3^rd ch. (72 sts)

Round 3: Ch 3 (counts as 1^st st), dc in each st around. Join with a sl st to the 1^st st. (72 sts)

Round 4: Pull CC1 (complementing color 1) through the loop, sc in 1^st st, 3dc cluster in next st, repeat [sc in next 7 sts, 3dc cluster in next st] 8 times, sc in rest of the 6 sts. Join with a sl st to the 1^st sc.

Round 5: Pull MC through the loop, ch 3, dc in each st around. Join with a sl st to the 1^st st.

Round 6: Ch 3, dc in each st around. Join with a sl st to the 1^st st.

Round 7: Pull CC2 through the loop, ch 1, sc in 5 sts, 3dc cluster in next st, repeat [sc in next 7 sts, 3dc cluster in next st] 8 times, sc in 2 sts. Join with a sl st to the 1^st sc.

Round 8 and 9: Using MC repeat 2 rounds of dc in each st around. 

Rounds 10 to 22: Repeat rounds 4 to 9. Cut off yarn and weave in the ends.

Finishing

Sew a button to the front of the bag. Join yarn to the back of the bag right behind the button and make a loop using any number of chains long enough to go around the button. Join with a sl st to the same st where you joined the yarn.

To make the strap, make any number of chains and work sl st in each ch across. Cut off yarn and weave in the ends. Sew both the ends to the inner sides of the bag.