After one week of non-stop crocheting, I have finally managed to make a perfect (I hope) Mother’s Day gift for my wonderful (and super talented) mom. The pretty Lily Hexagon Bag you see up there—the little blue beauty that nearly broke my wrist—will be packed and parceled off tomorrow to Gangtok. After that, all I can do is keep my fingers crossed that it reaches its destination on time.
The idea and the pattern (for the lily hexagon) for this little blue beauty came from this amazing blog, Colour In A Simple Life. You should go check out this blog; it has got loads of pretty stuff.
Now, I don’t know if you’ve noticed but I have slightly deviated from the original bag template which instructs you to work with 13 hexagons. Since I was working with a yarn thinner than what was prescribed and was in no mood to make a bag that’s too small to fit anything, I made a few changes. I added two more rounds to the hexagon and instead of 13 hexagons, I whipped up 21 and laid them out like this:
This is the front part of the layout. Once I joined all 21 pieces, it looked like this:
Next came the handles! Which reminds me I have a confession to make. I have absolutely no idea where they sell bag handles here in Kathmandu 😦 But thanks to Pinterest, I found an online tutorial on how to crochet purse handles. The problem: the tutorial is in Portuguese and I can’t read Portuguese 😀 Mercifully, it has enough photographs to allow you to figure out what you need to do and that solved the ‘handle’ problem 🙂
By the way, I have also made rose brooches for my three favorite aunts; they (the brooches, not the aunts) will make the journey back home with my mom’s little blue beauty tomorrow since they are my Mother’s Day gift to my aunts 🙂 You can find the patterns here and here.
Oh, and the red one, that’s for my mom 😀
Thank you so much for the lovely comment at my blog; and your bag is stunning! I love that you have made it bigger (the original is definately a bit small). Beautiful colours; great job! A hope your mum loves it.
best wishes
Karen
xx
I’m so glad you like it, Karen 🙂 And I’m grateful to you for sharing this amazing pattern and tutorial; you made it possible for a crochet novice like me to create something so beautiful for my mom. Thank you 😀
What a stunning piece of work you have completed! 😀 I hope you are very proud of yourself? You should be! 😀
Any mum would be delighted to receive such a beautiful gift made with such thought and love 🙂 And what a sterling job you did on the handles! WoW! They are sO good and fit it just right 😉
The roses are beautiful and all recipients will be chuffed to bits with them I’m sure. They are so much more ‘rose like’ than what I’ve recently made. What pattern did you use for yours please? 🙂
Mo x
Thank you so much for your lovely comment, Mo 😀 I can’t wait for mom to open up the package and go “wow!” 😉 The link for the large rose pattern is here — http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/rose-brooch-2. I’d included the pattern link for the small roses in my post but I guess it got lost among the maze of words and images. I guess I’ll have to fix that. In the meantime, you can go to this link for the little roses — http://www.freecraftunlimited.com/crochet-roses.html. Can’t wait to see what lovely things you make with them 😀
You’re welcome & thanks for the links to the roses 😀 I do apologise for being a dope & not ‘noticing’ them in your actual post – D’oh! 😉
Wow!
That was my reaction too when I first saw the original pattern 😀 Thank you for dropping by and leaving a comment 🙂
you are super duper talented … its beautiful the bag and the flowers..all of them…
am sure you mom and aunts are going to love them 🙂
Thank you, Little Miss 😀 I was just lucky to find this amazing pattern over at Karen’s blog. I’m so happy with how the bag’s turned out, and I’m glad you like it too 🙂
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Thank you 🙂
@Mo – I was in such a hurry to upload these images, I neglected to make the links easy to spot. Totally my fault. But that’s fixed now, thanks to you 🙂 I hope you have fun with the roses 😀
Congratulations on The Beautiful Blogger Award 😀 Well deserved 😀
Mo x
Thank you, dear Mo 🙂
@Little Miss – Thank you so much 😀 You just made my day — again! 😀
awww!!!! so pretty!
Thank you 😀
k bhayo May 7 dekhi ta chaina ni? kata harayo yo manchey?
Missed me? 😛 Kaam le alik busy bhayo ni. Ailey pani kaam garerako chu. Saturday pani no chutti, makkai bhutti 😉
ekdum ramro ho bg hunu tyo pani saturday ma haha
Beautiful work; love the roses too! =D
All credit goes to the wonderful blogger who shared her lovely pattern with us 🙂 Thank you for your lovely words. Glad you liked my attempts at crocheting 🙂
serah phupu! you are so talented!!! this is amazing!!! 🙂
Thanks, Smyrna 🙂 Ask your mom to make one for you too 😀
Congratulations! What a gourgeous creation 🤩
I’ d like to make one for myself. World you be so kind as to share your bag’s pattern/tutorial, please? I can’t wait to start!!! Thanks a lot in advance 🙏 Love, Angela
Thank you, Angela. It’s a lovely pattern I found on a blog called Colour in a Simple Life. Unfortunately, it appears the site is no longer active and the pattern designer has removed the pattern from her website. I’m sorry I couldn’t be of more help.