Masa Bag
2 balls of yarn, 1 crochet hook and a good podcast…
I used 2 balls of Katía Jamaica in a yellow/green/red/brown blend and a 3mm hook.
Work 48 chain stitches, turn and work in slip stitches or double crochet – whatever you prefer – untill you have rectangle 20 cm wide and 53 cm long. Or thereabouts.
The fun part is the folding, inspired by Japanese furoshiki and bukuro. I’ll sketch some instructions for you. I just have to remind myself how I actually did it…
Stitch the bag together, and make a narrow strap (8 chains wide) and attach it to the top corners.
If you like you can leave your bag flat, or you can turn it inside out and fold the bottom corners to form a flat bottom and fasten the flaps with a few strong stitches.
You don’t have to crochet this – you could also use a felted, knitted rectangle or a length of fabric.
Make it small and use it as an evening purse or make it huge and use it for shopping.
The name Masa Bag is inspired by a Canarian/Japanese sushi place in Las Palmas I visited just after buying the yarn. My bag is Spanish-Japanese just like Hideo the sushi cook!
Instructions for folding the Masa Bag
March 6th, 2009 § 22 Comments
Let me try to explain how I folded the Masa Bag inspired by Japanese furoshiki and bukuro:
The dimensions of the rectangle should be approximately 1:3
- Fold the first corner
- Fold the second corner
- Make a fold for the bottom
- Seam from the bottom corners until the coloured dots, make a strap and go shopping!
See – easy as pie!
Depending on the length of the piece of fabric you can push the top corners a bit closer to each other, thus making the opening smaller like I did.ADVE
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