It was seeing an amazing pink and red striped Raffia handbag, being carried by one of our fabulous customers at Wool Monty earlier I this year, that confirmed I had made the right decision to stock a Raffia yarn. So a pink and red bag was high on the list of samples to make!
What I used:
1 Ball of RaffiaLuxe in ‘Strawberry Daiquiri’
1 Ball of RaffiaLuxe in ‘Paloma’
10mm crochet hook
Tapestry Needle
Method:
I followed the pattern exactly as written- However, because I wanted to combine the 2 colours, I crocheted using 1 strand at a time, but carried the second yarn through the piece- trapping inside the stitches, swapping colours at intervals around the circle. There was no set place to change. I just made sure that the changes weren’t lining up, on each round and I was using similar amounts of each colour.
When making the gusset band, I swapped colour every 2 rows, to give a striped effect.
Assembling the bag, and adding the handles was done exactly as the pattern. I chose to do it all in the red colour. I did find I needed more Double Crochets to cover the whole handle at the end…I ended up with around 65.
We’d love to see what you create with the RaffiaLuxe yarn – please your pictures on Instagram tagging us @maggieandme.co.uk
Xxx
