Free crochet produce bag pattern - Puffin Lace Market Bag

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Are you looking for a reusable market bag crochet pattern? The Puffin Lace Market Bag is a free crochet produce bag pattern featuring a lacy puff stitch repeat. Read on to find out more and access the free pattern.

Free crochet market bag inspiration

I am a hoarder of reusable bags. I generally end up with more stuff than I can fit into the bags that I have and end up buying one. Recently this is mostly veg and fruit for packed lunches and so I decided to make a crochet produce bag pattern out of some random balls from my stash. This would be easy and light to carry pretty much all the time and should stop me buying the ugly faux plastic ones. The hessian ones aren’t big enough.

Puffin Lace Market Bag, Free crochet market bag pattern

Going through my stash, I decided to use up some leftover balls of James C Brett 100% Cotton DK to make this crochet produce bag free pattern. I had 3 balls and wanted to use them all up AND have a fairly sturdy but open crochet market bag.

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Crochet produce bag pattern yarn and materials

I used 3 balls of James C Brett’s, It’s 100% Cotton DK in the colour IC08. This yarn is 100% cotton, 100g balls at £3.25 per skein. Available in 9 light bright shades this yarn is very easy to work with. A fairly sturdy yarn, I chose to work this crochet market bag pattern with two strands together, this should add some strength to it and also counter the stretch.

Puffin Lace Market Bag pattern info & tips

This crochet market bag pattern is worked by holding two strands of yarn together. Working from the bottom up, you will create the lace pattern in the round making this a seamless crochet produce bag pattern.

There are a few things that may seem counterintuitive when working up this free crochet produce bag pattern – go with it. The pattern is repeated over 4 rounds, use a stitch marker to keep a track of the start/end of rounds.

Terms: written in US crochet terms.

Types: written pattern, photo tutorial included on pdf pattern

Skill level: advanced beginner

Yarn: 3 x James C Brett, It’s 100% Cotton DK, or 645m/702yds of any 3 or DK weight yarn. Great alternatives would be Paintbox Simply Cotton DK or King Cole Cottonsoft DK.

Hook: 5mm – I used my Clover Amour hook

Stitches used:

Chain
Double Crochet
Puff Stitch
Single Crochet
Half Double Crochet
Back Loop Half Double Crochet
Slip Stitch

Puffin Lace Market Bag tester thanks

Many thanks to Christopher for helping me with the test for this design. This version of this easy crochet produce bag pattern is worked with 2 strands of Dishie yarn.

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Puffin Lace Market Bag Pattern

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Puffin Lace FREE crochet produce bag pattern

Skill Level: Beginner – Easy

Terms: US Terms

Materials used: 3 x James C. Brett It’s 100% Pure DK Cotton, 100g 215m/234yds or 645m/ 702 yds of any DK or 3 weight yarn

Hook: 4.5mm

Other items: scissors, darning needle, stitch marker

Gauge: 2 repeats x 20 rows = 4in

Complete 2.5 pattern repeat rows

Size: 11 x 14 in

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Notes:

Pattern is worked holding two strands of yarn together
Pattern is written in the round.
Please pay close attention to the ends of rounds – you will NOT turn in every round and this is highlighted in BOLD TEXT
Ch1 does not count as a stitch
Ch3 counts as a dc

Stitches & Abbreviations

Chain – ch
Single Crochet – sc
Double Crochet – dc
Half Double Crochet – hdc
Back Loop Only Half Double Crochet – hdc BLO
Skip – sk
Space – sp
Turning Chain – tch
Puff Stitch – puff * see special stitches
Puff Fan – pf* see special stitches

Special Stitches:

Puff Fan (pf) – (puff, ch1, dc, ch1, puff) in the specified spacePuff (puff) – yarn over and insert your hook into the specified sp, (yarn over and draw up a loop) 3 times, yarn over and pull through all the loops on the hook, ch1 to secure the puff

Start:

Base

The base of this pattern is worked around the chain without turning.

Ch 50

Round 1:

Hdc into the 2nd ch from the hook (sk ch does not count as a st, hdc in the next 47, 3hdc in the next st, hdc in the next 47 sts (in the base of the sts already worked), 2hdc in the base of the beg hdc. Join with a sl-st to the top of the beg hdc. (100)

Round 2:

Hdc BLO in the same st, hdc BLO in every st around. Join with a sl-st to the top of the beg hdc. (100)

Body

Now we will work the body area of the bag and will turn in SOME rounds, marked at the end in BOLD

Round 3:

Ch6 (counts as dc, ch3), sc in the 4th ch from the hook, ch1, sk1, sc in the next st, [ch3, sk2, dc in the next st, ch1, sk1, dc in the next st, ch3, sk2, sc in the next st, ch1, sk1, sc in the next st], 9 times, ch3, sk2, dc in the the next st, ch1, sk 1, join with a sl-st to the 3rd ch of the tch. (20 sc, 20 ch3 sps, 20 dc, 20 ch1 sps)

Round 4:

Ch1, sc in the same st, ch3, pf in the next ch1 sp, [ch3, sc in the next ch1 sp, ch3, pf in the next ch1 sp] 9 times, ch3, join into the top of the beg sc. (10 pf, 20 ch3 sps, 10 sc)

Round 5:

Ch1, sc in the same st, ch3, dc in the next ch1 sp, ch1, dc in the next ch1 sp, [ch3, sc in the ch3 sp, ch1, sc in the ch3 sp, ch3, dc in the next ch1 sp, ch1, dc in the next ch1 sp] 9 times, ch1, join into the top of the beg sc. Turn (19 ch3 sps, 19 sc, 20 dc, 20 ch1 sps)

Round 6:

Puff into the next ch1 sp, ch3, sc in the next ch1 sp, [ch3, pf in the next ch1 sp, ch3, sc in the next ch1 sp] 4 times, ch3, puff in the next ch1 sp, [ch3, pf in the next ch1 sp, ch3, sc in the next ch1 sp] 4 times, ch3, join with a sl-st to the top of the beg puff. (8 pf, 2puffs, 10 sc, 20 ch3 sps)

Round 7:

Sl-st into the next ch3 sp, ch6, sc into the same sp, ch1, sc in the next ch3 sp, [ch3, dc in the next ch1 sp, ch1, dc in the next ch1 sp, ch3, sc in the next ch3 sp, ch1, sc in the next ch3 sp] 5 times, ch3, dc in the same sp, ch1, dc in the next ch3 sp, ch3, sc in the same sp, ch1, sc in the next sp, [ch3, dc in the next ch1 sp, ch1, dc in the next ch1 sp, ch3, sc in the next ch3 sp, ch1, sc in the next ch3 sp] 5 times, ch3, dc in the same sp, ch1, join with a sl-st into the 3rd ch of the tch. Turn

Round 8:

Sl-st into the next ch1 sp, ch1, sc in the same st, ch3, pf in the next ch1 sp, [ch3, sc in the next ch1 sp, ch3, pf in the next ch1 sp] 9 times, ch3, join into the top of the beg sc. (10 pf, 20 ch3 sps, 10 sc)

Round 9:

Sl-st into the next sp, ch1, sc in the same sp, ch3, dc in the next ch1 sp, ch1, dc in the next ch1 sp, [ch3, sc in the ch3 sp, ch1, sc in the ch3 sp, ch3, dc in the next ch1 sp, ch1, dc in the next ch1 sp] 9 times, ch1, join into the top of the beg sc. Turn (19 ch3 sps, 19 sc, 20 dc, 20 ch1 sps)

Round 10:

Round 11:

Rounds 12 – 29:

Repeat rnds 8 – 11 (ending on round 9 of the repeat)

Round 30:

Sl-st into the ch1 sp, ch4 (counts as dc, ch1), dc in the next ch1 sp, [ch3, dc in the next ch1 sp, ch3, sc in the next ch1 sp] 9 times, ch1, join into the 3rd ch of the tch. Turn (19 ch3 spaces, 9 sc, 10 dc)

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Round 31:

Ch1, hdc in the same st, hdc in every st and sp around, placing 3 hdc into each sp. Turn (80)

Round 32:

Ch1, sc in the same st, sc in the next 9 sts, ch100, sk20, sc into the next st, sc into the next 19 sts, ch100, sk20, sc in the next 10 sts. Join with a sl-st into the top of the beg sc. Turn (240) (40 sc, 200 chains, 60 skipped stitches)

Round 33:

Ch1, hdc in the same st, hdc in the next 8 sts, 3hdc in the next st, hdc in the next 100 ch, 3hdc in the next st, hdc in the next 18 sts, 3hdc in the next st, hdc in the next 100 ch, 3hdc in the next st, hdc in the next 9 sts. Join with a sl-st to the top of the beg hdc. (248 hdc)

Round 34:

Ch1, sc in the same st, sc in every st round. (248 sc)

Tie off and secure your ends

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