Corntastic!

When Regina took me on my first foray to A Mano I was immediately enchanted with the corn yarn. I mean, its freakin corn. And its soft. And dude, its made 100% from corn. Seriously. Corn. How do you not fall for that.

As I discussed in my last post, don't put the yarn near a hot iron but other than that it was interesting to work with. Its a ribbon yarn texture but oddly sturdy...about wool strong but not cotton strong. I just finished a second project with it and it also has a nice drape. It was that soft drape that initially attracted me to it but knowing that Todd's mom would never wear a knitted cardigan or shell I set out to make a bag. After much discussion with Regina, it was determined that crochet would give this yarn the strength it needed to become a fabulous little bag.

The bag was pretty free form so I have no pattern to post other than I worked with an F crochet hook, with 10 rows composing each stripe. I think I cast on about 180 stitches and worked in the round from there. What you don't see are two belt loops on the back of the bag about two inches long to hold the "belt," also about two inches thick. Magnets hold the bag shut (the two circles you can see in the picture) where D rings hold the bag on my hips.

I thought the bag would be bigger when I cast on but the size dictated the function of the bag, a small hip bag meant to carry only cash and keys for shopping as I talked about below.

Once I got over the "iron incident" I really liked this bag, and the lining (see below) which says something since I basically hate everything I make. But, if I didn't like Todd's mom so much, I might have kept it. It would have been great for sample sales and Last Chance runs.

I like crocheting, now I just have to learn how to read crochet patterns.