This post is sponsored by We Are Knitters. All opinions are 100% my own!
Happy Friday friends! I just spent a very fun (but long) week in the mountains with a group of youth girls from my church. I must say, disconnecting from social media, giggling all night, and enjoying beautiful Mother Nature for five days was extremely refreshing. I took some projects with me and it was fun to get a few things finished. I especially loved how quickly and lovely my Menorca Bag worked up, a crochet kit by We Are Knitters. The color is fresh and pretty, and the texture of the bag is perfect.
The Menorca Kit comes with 3 skeins of fabric yarn, a 15mm wooden hook, a darning needle and a pattern booklet. I have never worked with knit fabric yarn before and I loooooove it. It has the perfect amount of stretch to it, but not enough to make it difficult to work with.
When I pulled out that big hook, I thought,” Nah! That hook is waaaay too big for this yarn.” The foundation chain looked big and loose, and a bit shabby. Luckily I decided to trust the pattern because it worked up beautifully. Once I started working single crochet stitches into the chain, I saw the texture come alive.
Isn’t it pretty? And that is only a few minutes of work. You can make the entire bag in about 90 minutes. Chunky yarn is so fun!
The bag itself is very substantial; I won’t be adding liner to it. It’s perfect the way it is!
I made a few adjustments to the pattern. This Menorca Bag is very easy to modify for your own tastes. I wanted my bag a bit shorter, so I worked a few less rows on the bag body before adding the handles. I also added a row of single crochet stitches across the top of the handles before working the last row of slip stitches.
This bag is simple but very on-trend and perfect for beginners.
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What a lovely pattern! I’d love to have a chance to win. Thanks!
I love the Menorca set, and I’d get Royal Blue!!
I’d love the Udon XXL kit from WAK if I were to win! 😃
I would LOVE the Pann Cardigan kit! https://www.weareknitters.com/knitting-kit/pann-cardigan
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Love the bag! Super cute!
I love this bag & pink is my favorite color!!
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Would love to win this kit!😍
I like this bag and the sphinx and samasana blankets.
Beautiful bag, i would love to get this kit or one of the kits they have for their summer tops.
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This bag is fun and functional! It looks like it would be great fun to make. The Melrose Petit Point kit is really fun looking as well, but the Taikon Poncho is INCREDIBLE!!
Is this where we can leave our info, to enter the contest for the pink bag? I hope so! It’s adorable, and I would LOVE to make it!! Thanks for the contest opportunity!!
I love the Crochet Minorca Handbag! I’ve never used fabric yarn but looks pretty easy to work with. I love that the handbag works up quickly and think it would make great holiday gifts.
Would love to make this pink bag! Love it!
I love this bag!!!! I would definitely make it or the pann cardigan if I win!!!! Hopefully this is where we enter I also subscribed to the newsletter!
This would be awesome to win
This is darling! Love it!
The menorca bag is too cute and I love the pink shown here!