Crochet Sunflower Handbag Pattern For Everyday Style

Brighten your day with the charming Crochet Sunflower Handbag pattern! This beautiful handbag shines with a stunning sunflower design with two layers of petals, adding texture and depth. Perfect for daily use or as a stylish statement piece, this sunflower handbag effortlessly complements any outfit. Plus, the easy-to-follow tutorial ensures that even beginners can create this lovely and functional bag. Appreciate the cheerful charm of sunflowers with this delightful crochet project.

Best Yarn To Choose?

Durability: The milk cotton yarn is known for its strength and durability, making it suitable for items like handbags that need to withstand regular use.
Softness: Milk cotton yarn is also quite soft, which can make your projects more appealing and pleasant to the touch.
Variety of Colors: The yarn comes in different colors, allowing you to design and create items with various color schemes and patterns.
Tension Control: As showcased in your sunflower handbag tutorial, 5-ply yarn gives you good control over tension, which is crucial in getting neat and even stitches.

Materials Needed

5-ply milk cotton yarn
4 mm crochet hook
2.5 mm crochet hook for the flower
Markers or yarn tails
Scissors
Needle for finishing

Bag Body

Starting the Base:
- Use a 4 mm hook and two strands of 5-ply milk cotton yarn.
- Start from any hole of the round back bottom and connect your yarn.
- Round 1:
  - Join yarn and ch 1 (do not count this as a stitch).
  - In the current space, do 1 single crochet.
  - Continue with 1 single crochet in the next space, then do 2 single crochet in the following space (increase).
  - Repeat the pattern (1 single crochet, 2 single crochet) around the base.
  - Slip stitch to the first single crochet to close the round.
Subsequent Rounds:
- Round 2:
  - Ch 1 (do not count as a stitch).
  - Do 1 single crochet in each space around.
  - Slip stitch to the first single crochet to close the round.
- Round 3:
  - Ch 1 (do not count as a stitch).
  - Alternate between 1 single crochet and 1 drop stitch (insert hook into the space below the stitch, pull up a loop to the height of previous stitch, yarn over, pull through both loops).
  - Slip stitch to the first single crochet to close the round.
- Round 4:
  - Ch 1 (do not count as a stitch).
  - Start with a drop stitch if previous round started with single crochet.
  - Alternate between 1 single crochet and 1 drop stitch.
  - Slip stitch to the first single crochet to close the round.
- Continue this pattern, alternating starting stitches to create the texture until you have completed 16 rounds total.
Finishing the Base:
- At the end of round 16, slip stitch to close the round.
- Cut yarn and leave a long tail (~30 cm).
- Pull through the yarn to finish with an invisible slip stitch (find last stitch, pull through the first stitch again).

Attaching Handles

Marking Locations:
- Fold the bag body and mark two points for handles about 12 spaces apart.
- Attach markers to define where handles start and end.
Attach Handles:
- Using the 4 mm hook and two strands of 5-ply milk cotton yarn:
- Join yarn at marked space.
- Single crochet around, including handles, maintaining tension.
- Securely attach with additional single crochets (13 for each handle).
- Fasten off with a long tail and secure the tail through existing stitches.

Flower Decoration

Flower Center (using brown yarn and a 2.5 mm hook):
- Make a magic ring, crochet 6 single crochets into it, and pull to close.
- Slip stitch to close the round and ch 1 (do not count as stitch).
- Round 2:
  - 2 single crochet in each stitch around (12 stitches).
- Round 3:
  - 1 single crochet in the first stitch, 2 single crochet in next stitch (18 stitches).
- Continue to increase stitches as follows: Round 4: (2 single crochet, 1 increase) around; Round 5: (3 single crochet, 1 increase) around.
Petals:
- First Layer of Petals:
  - - Attach yellow yarn.
    - Chain 8, single crochet back along the chain.
    - Skip a space on the circle base, slip stitch, and chain 8 again for the next petal.
    - Repeat to complete 18 petals.
- Second Layer of Petals:
  - Attach yellow yarn, working in back loops from the base.
  - Chain 10, single crochet back along the chain.
  - Skip a space on the circle base, slip stitch, and chain 10 again for the next petal.
  - Repeat to complete the second layer of 18 petals.