popcorn
I have a new crochet love. It’s the popcorn stitch.
Oh, the texture! Oh, the touch! Oh, the yarn usage! With this stitch, I have made a Raspberry Bag (although mine is more Scarlet than Raspberry).
This bag took around three balls of Lincraft Cosy Wool. This yarn goes on special fairly often, so it’s worth waiting for a sale. I enjoyed working with it and my 6.5mm bamboo hook. It’s lined with some groovy button printed fabric, which you can just see peeking out in the photo below.
I am now keenly investigating other bag patterns that involve popcorn stitch. I currently have two contenders, the Taupe Bag and the Dolce Tote. Although I am also sorely tempted to crochet the Thundersnow Bag, which doesn’t involve the popcorn stitch but does involve wonderful texture. So many choices!
Have you changed your blog? It’s all bright and sparkley and different and new looking.
Thanks Allison – I have changed the template. As a big of a bloggiversary celebration! Glad that you like it.
That is just so cute!! And I agree – I’ve just done a block using popcorn stitch and it really ate up the yarn!
I love my bamboo hook too. It is just extra special. Mine is 8mm so I have been planning on getting some more in different sizes.
Love this bag Lara. The colour, the texture, the POP!
Oh Lara stop tempting me! I am quite happy with my latest Nikki bag that I saw from you last time we met. I thought I was quilt addicted but could have been wrong…perhaps bag addicted!
Yes the yarn useage, I have a half finished cowl with the same stitch, which I ran out of wool for…..been meaning to pull it out and make something else with it, buts it to nice to rip apart! May have to wear it as is…
I recently re-worked something I started in Popcorn stitch a year ago and realised that the yarn wouldn’t make the distance.
Anyhoo – crochet is a major direction in handbag fashion fo winter (at least in Europe) so you’d best get hooking!
Excuse appaling syntax in that first sentence. The reworking was fine, the thing I started was stopped becauseI saw that the yarn was being gobbled up.
…I’ll shut up now.
🙂
Wow, that would take me years to complete. Love the colour!
I love this stitch too… got quite obsessed for a while….Also lovely on cowls… 🙂
Your bag looks terrific.