Easy Trifold Crochet Bag Patten | Blooming Trails

This easy trifold crochet bag has a beautiful, feminine texture created with just a few simple bean stitches and double crochet. It’s a simple and quick project with a stunning result! The rows of bean stitch clusters look just like flowers beginning to bloom!

The Blooming Trails Bag is perfect for throwing over your shoulder for an afternoon outing! Pair it with a sundress or some beachwear as the perfect accessory!

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Blooming Trails Designs

If you like the look of the Blooming Trails design, I have a few other accessories that I have used it with as well! The Blooming Trails Cowl and the Blooming Trails Beanie!

The Blooming Ridges designs are very similar, but with a slanting line of bean stitches instead of straight rows. This collection contains the Blooming Ridges Beanie and the Blooming Ridges Scarf!

If you love this look as much as I do, these will keep you busy for a while!

The Pattern

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Materials:

• 317 yards weight 5 bulky yarn (I used Big Twist Gentle in Denim, 100% anti-pilling acrylic, 3.52oz/99g, 131yd/202m)
• US K/ 6.5 mm Crochet Hook
• Yarn Needle
• Scissors
• One Pre-made handle (Sample shows 23” handle)
• Needle and thread for sewing on handle

Gauge:

After Row 4: approx. 12” wide x 2.5” tall

Final Size:

15.5” wide x 17” tall (at tallest point, not including handles)

Abbreviation Key:

(ch) chain
(sk) skip
(st) stitch
(sl st) slip stitch
(dc) double crochet
Special stitch: Bean Stitch
** Repeat instructions between asterisks as many times as directed

How to Crochet the Bean Stitch:

Insert hook. Yo (yarn over) and pull through the stitch. Yo. Insert hook in the same stitch. Yo and pull up a loop. You will have 4 loops on your hook. Yo. Insert hook in the same stitch. Yo and pull up a loop. You will have 6 loops on your hook. Yo and pull through all 6 loops on your hook. Chain 1 to finish off the stitch. (this counts as part of the stitch. A chain 1 stated after a bean stitch in pattern is in addition to this chain 1).

Pattern Notes:

Beginning chain of each round does not count as a stitch.

I tend to crochet tightly. So be sure to check your gauge and if you are crocheting more loosely you can move to a smaller hook (or larger if you crochet even more tightly). Some people find they even need to go down two hook sizes to meet my gauge.

Note that the bean stitch finishes off with a chain 1. When pattern states to complete a bean stitch, this includes the chain 1 to finish. If a chain 1 is instructed in the pattern after a bean stitch, this is in addition to the chain 1 to finish off the bean stitch.

The bag is constructed in a rectangle that is approximately 3 times as tall as it is wide (ex. 12” wide and 36” tall). You can resize the bag as long as you maintain this ratio of width to height. If your width is not exactly 12”, you can also adjust your number of rows (height) at the end to get the ratio you need.

Once the rectangle is completed, it is folded to create the bag shape and edges are seamed together with a whip stitch.

For reference in choosing or creating your own handle: the sample shows a 23” handle.

If you are a person who likes stripes to line up at seams, you may want to avoid a self-striping yarn. The stripes are not likely to line up.

Pattern:

Chain 37.

Row 1: Dc in 3rd ch from hook. Sk next ch. [Bean, ch 1, bean] in next ch (note that the ch 1 is in addition to the ch 1 that finishes off the bean stitch). Sk next ch. *Dc in each of next 3 chs. Sk next ch. [Bean, ch 1, bean] in next ch. Sk next ch.* Repeat from * to * until last ch. Dc in last ch. (35; 17 dc and 6 bean clusters)

Row 2: Ch 2. Turn. Dc in same st. Skip bean st. [Bean, ch 1, bean] in the ch space between the two bean stitches. Sk bean stitch. *Dc in each of next 3 sts. Sk bean st. [Bean, ch 1, bean] in ch space between the two bean stitches. Sk bean st.* Repeat from * to * until last st. Dc in last st. (35; 17 dc and 6 bean clusters)

Rows 3 – 53: Repeat row 2.

Note: After row 4, my work was approx. 12” wide x 2.5” tall. It is not imperative that the width be exactly 12”, as you can adjust the number of rows of your bag to get the right fit. However, if you want the finished bag to be approximately the size stated in the pattern and your gauge is vastly different, you might want to start over with a different size hook.

After row 53, my work was approximately 33” from first to last row, almost 3 times the width, though not exact. This sizing worked well for folding my bag. You can follow the instructions for folding below and see if you have a good width to length ratio for folding. If your edges do not line up well when folding, you can add or remove rows here to get the fit right.

Finish off and weave in your ends.

Constructing the bag:

Lay rectangle so that the long sides are horizontal.

Take the lower left corner and fold it up so that the left edge lines up with the top edge.

Take the upper right corner and fold it down so that the right edge lines up with the bottom edge.

Grab the right side of the bag that is folded AND the middle portion that is not folded. Fold it up so that the bottom edge that is not part of any folds yet lines up with the edge of the left-hand folded section.

Attach a long piece of yarn with a knot to the top of the seam that is created at the front of the bag by folding. Using a yarn needle, whip stitch down the seam. Secure and finish off.

Repeat for the seam on the back of the bag.

Weave in your ends. Attach ends of handle to the top corners of the bag with needle and thread.