It's a simple v stitch made up of trebles and single crochet. The author made her own version but if you look closely it doesn't curve quite as much as the original for my liking.
I got around this by decreasing on the 6mm hook round of single crochet by one stitch every 6 stitches.
I'm really happy with the outcome. This isn't an everyday bag, due to the colour but it's a good one for the odd outing.
I used 12ply cream Marvel from Spotlight for about $3 a ball and used less than one ball.
The handle is currently a belt from the local emporium for $3, the silver rings were .70c each from the same emporium and I used brown satin ribbon, less than two metres for less than $1 a metre, also from the emporium.
I lined the bag with a remnant from Spotlight, it's cream thermal drape material in a jacquard pattern and it looks great.
My entire bag cost less than $20 to produce.
As you can see I hand sewed some of the ribbon around the top of the bag, to hide the stitching of the lining. That's my sewing machine in the background LOL.
I also relined my granny bag with more of the remnant and still have some left over.
The thermal drape material doesn't fray because of the thermal lining and it provides a level of stiffness to the bag that the crochet alone doesn't.
It's a lovely simple bag, the body was crocheted in one evening. I put it all together and lined it this afternoon, including popping out to the emporium to find the hardware.
I'd like to remake it and see if an increase and decrease in the bottom makes a difference to the shape, just for the sake of curiosity.
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