Crochet Market Bag

Crochet Farmers Market Bag Pattern

I love the farmers market. And yes, I do need to go for some things that I just don’t grow here on the homestead. I won’t waste time or garden space for veggies or fruit that we just don’t eat a whole lot of like eggplant or butternut squash. So I designed this crocheted mesh bag with a knitted bottom. I wanted to have the bottom knitted because I feel it is much more stronger then the crochet bottoms I have found on the internet.

This is a medium size bag. It holds about 10-14 pieces of fruits or vegetables (in the picture above I have 14 medium size oranges in the bag). When you are constructing the bag, it will look small but don’t worry the bag will stretch…and stretch…and stretch. You will be working from the bottom up. So here are my step by step instructions.

- 1 skein Sugar N’ Cream cotton yarn; worsted
- 5 double pointed knitting needles size 5 or 6
- 1 crochet hook size 6
- stitch markers

Cast on 3 stitches each of the 4 double pointed needles. You will have a total of 12 stitches.

Connect your round ends together. I do this by pulling the first right stitch to the left needle and the last left stitch to the right needle.

Round 1: K12

Round 2-15: K1 F/B, Knit to end of round (you should have 16 stitches on each needle at the end of the 15th round)

Round 16-20: K64

Round 21: Convert from knitting needles to the crochet hook. You will single crochet each knitted stitch off of the knitting needles. YouTube tutorial At the end of the round single crochet into the knitted stitch before the beginning of the crochet stitches

Round 22: CH 5, Skip 3, SC next stitch repeat to end of round

Round 23: CH3, SC into 1st large hole made by the previous chain stitches, CH 5, SC into next large hole made by previous round repeat to end of round