Round Hobo Bag

Round Hobo Bag

This bag is especially great if you have a lot of colors to use up. I actually saw these in the department stores and I decided to make them. It's super duper easy, and once you get the hang if it, it's simple to change it up.

For this, we will start with the bottom. Ch3, and join to form a circle.

Round 1: Ch2 and 9hdc into the main hole.

Round 2: Do not sl st into the the ch2. Instead, continue to hdc around, putting 2hdc in ea st. This looks really good if you just hdc into the outside hole instead of the whole st. Okay, so if you dont get what I'm talking about, this should explain. Anyways,

Round 3: Continue to do this around, and once you've completed aproximately one and a half times around, change it up and *2hdc in the first st, then one hdc in the next. Repeat * around.

Round 4 and beyond: Once you've gotten about one and a half times around, change it to *2hdc in first stitch, 1hdc in next 2 sts.

Continue to increase the number of stitches with a single hdc as you see fit. Do this until you've reached as big as you'd like the bottom of your hobo bag to be.

Switch colors if you'd like.

Round 5: Now we're adding onto the sides. Please do the fire stitch I so aptly described for you. Doing that stitch is really important for the bag to lay right. Otherwise, the bottom flows into your sides and it's really just all over the place. This just lets the bag know "Hey... this is where the bottom ends and the sides begin, okay?" Anyways, ch3 and fire stitch around using a dc. Just put one dc into each st. You may be able to sneak a few extra in there if you like your bag to look roundish instead of cylinderish. When you're done going around, st st into the 3rd of the ch3.

Round 6-14: Repeat Rnd 5, but, do NOT use the fire stitch. It confuses your bag and that's just mean. Ch3 and do a regular dc into each st.

-Note- If your bag is not tall enough for you, feel free to add some more rounds to it right now. Otherwise, we'll be moving on to where we'll lace the cinch strings in.

Round 15: *3dc, ch1. Repeat *around. If it is uneven, do 2 sets of 2 in the very front.

Round 16: *1sc, 1dc into same stitch. 1dc, isc into next st. sl st next st. Repeat *around.

For the drawstring, it's easy to just make a chain and weave it through the holes made on round 15. For the strap, you can braid or make a crochet one by making a chain for as long as you'd like your strap to be, *ch1, turn and hdc or dc into each st. Repeat * until it's as thick as you'd like it.