My friends, it’s finally here. Three months of warm and sunny bliss. Of water balloons, lemonade, and vacations.
But let’s face it. Summer wouldn’t be the same without the experience of sinking your teeth into a juicy, luscious slice of ripe watermelon.
And now that I’ve got you drooling all over your computer screen, let’s talk about this bag. I have a thing for drawstring bags. So do my little sisters. They almost destroyed this one by pulling it open and then yanking the strings as hard as they could to close it, when they thought I wasn’t looking.
But it survived! So yes, these are very durable. This is pretty much the only bag that I would make with acrylic yarn, just because you don’t need to worry much about stretching the handles anyway. But cotton would also work well, if you so desire.
Have fun!
Watermelon Bag Pattern
Materials:
-Medium weight acrylic yarn in red (about 250 yds), green (about 150 yds), white, and black (less than 100 yds each)
-Size G hook
-stitch marker
-scissors and yarn needle
Stitches used/abbreviations:
ch – chain
st – stitch
sl st – slip stitch
mc – magic circle
sc – single crochet
hdc – half double crochet
dc – double crochet
Gauge: 15 hdc x 10 rows = 4″ x 4″
Dimensions: about 10″ long and 10″ in diameter.
Pattern Notes:
-Do not join at end of first round
-Anything between asterisks is repeated to the end of the round
Body of bag:
With green yarn:
Rnd 1: mc, 10 hdc into circle.
Rnd 2: 2 hdc into each stitch around
Rnd 3: *1 hdc in first st, 2 hdc in next* around.
Rnd 4: *1 hdc in first 2 sts, 2 hdc in next* around.
Rnd 5: *1 hdc in first 3 sts, 2 hdc in next* around.
Rnd 6: *1 hdc in first 4 sts, 2 hdc in next* around.
Rnd 7: *1 hdc in first 5 sts, 2 hdc in next* around.
Rnd 8: *1 hdc in first 6 sts, 2 hdc in next* around.
Rnds 9-12: 1 hdc in each st around.
Change to white yarn.
Rnd 13: hdc in each st around.
Change to red yarn.
Rnds 14-28: hdc in each st around.
Rnd 29: ch 3, sk 1, dc in next, *ch 1, sk 1, dc in next* to the end of the round. Sl st to top of ch-3.
Rnd 30: ch 2, hdc into sl st, hdc in dc, *hdc in ch-1 space, hdc in dc* to the end of the round, sl st to ch-2.
Rnds 31-32: hdc in each st around.
Fasten off, weave in ends.
With black yarn, make little stitches into the red part of the bag (mine were about 1 1/2″ apart).
Drawstrings (make 2):
Chain 101.
Sc in second chain from hook, and in each chain across. Fasten off. If you want, you can make tassels on the ends by looping 3 or 4 pieces of yarn through each end of the string, and trimming the ends.
Weave strings into the ch-1 spaces in Rnd 29.
