Crocheted Purse and a WIP

Posted on June 29, 2007 by Leah
I know it isn't jewelry, but I made this cute crocheted purse while following along with the learn to crochet lessons at Crafty Daisies. There was a link to a purse pattern in lesson #4, which I altered slightly, mostly by making it bigger and winging it on the ruffle part since I didn't write it down (but ruffles are easy enough to crochet without a pattern). crocheted purse And since this is supposed to be a jewelry blog, here's a picture of my latest in-progress resin piece, using the top of an altoid tin as a bezel: altoid tin resin pendant - in progress
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9 Responses to Crocheted Purse and a WIP

  1. Janice says:
    July 2, 2007 at 11:00 am

    Interesting resin! and cute purse! And now you’ve been ‘tagged’! Go to my blog to see what you need to do. Here’s a link to the page: http://doxallodesigns.blogspot.com/2007/06/ive-been-tagged.html
    ~Janice

  2. Stephanie says:
    July 2, 2007 at 5:03 pm

    Very pretty! I love the red.

    Thank you for the Make It From Scratch Entry!

  3. Cindy says:
    July 2, 2007 at 7:45 pm

    Great job on the crocheted bag! See how much fun crocheting is. I hope we have you hooked!!

  4. Administrator says:
    July 3, 2007 at 10:27 am

    Thanks everyone – Janice, I’ll do the tag thing soon. Cindy, yes I am completely hooked. I think I prefer crochet to knitting. Stephanie – on my way over to see the new MIFS!

  5. jewelry says:
    July 12, 2007 at 5:43 pm

    Really looks good

  6. Cynthia Clinton says:
    August 9, 2007 at 5:17 pm

    I’d have never guessed from the picture that the bezel was an altoids tin. Great recycling! There’s got to be some creative use for the darned things cuz they are all over.

  7. matt says:
    December 1, 2007 at 6:29 pm

    beautiful piece. what to you use to make the resin so shinny?…I have worked with resin before, and I always end up struggling to make it look shiny..

  8. Zaida says:
    February 14, 2011 at 5:20 am

    Hi Leah,

    I´ve seen this cute purse and would love to adapt the pattern to a bigger one but the link you´ve added does not work anymore.

    I would really appreciate if you could tell me what stitchtes have you used.

    Many thanks,

    Zaida

  9. Leah says:
    February 24, 2011 at 10:34 am

    Zaida, I made that purse a while ago…I’m pretty sure I just used single crochet, increasing for the round base, then stopping the increases for the body. For the ruffle, I think all I did was add a lot of increases. I really hope that makes sense, since it has been a while and I don’t remember exactly how I did it.