Crochet Market Bag Patterns: 8 Free Designs
Market bags can be built from joined mesh panels, worked in the round from the bottom up, shaped from a large square, or built as a treble stitch mesh with a magic ring base. These eight original patterns list their handle construction, materials, and finished dimensions.
A tapestry needle makes short work of weaving in ends and securing handles once the mesh panels are joined.
Market bag patterns to explore
1. Crochet Market Bag
Carmen at Annie Design Crochet joins two rectangular mesh panels around three sides, then adds sewn handles. The sample is 12.5 by 14.5 inches in 4-ply cotton/linen yarn with a 3 mm hook. Sewn on handles are simpler to attach but less integrated into the bag structure than a one piece design.
2. Willow Mesh Market Bag
Briana Kepner at Briana K Designs is a bottom up, in the round one piece bag with directly crocheted handles. It is available in small, medium, and large sizes. Working the handles directly into the body avoids a separate sewing step altogether.
3. French Market Bag
Alexandra Tavel at Two of Wands is an intermediate pattern made as a large square, then gathered with decrease rows. It uses about 558 yards of worsted cotton and a 4 mm hook. Shaping the bag from a square after the fact is a different approach from building the final shape in rounds from the start.
4. Easy Mesh Market Bag
CAAB Crochet starts from a magic ring and expands in the round using treble crochet for an open mesh body, finishing at 16 inches tall with 8-inch straps in about 244 yards of size 3 cotton. Starting from a magic ring rather than a foundation chain keeps the base seamless from the very first round.
5. Easy T Shirt Yarn Purse
Ashley Parker at The Loopy Lamb works a modified single crochet in continuous rounds with a 9 mm hook and super bulky t shirt yarn for firm sides, finishing about 8 by 7.75 inches with leather straps and a drawstring toggle top. T shirt yarn gives this bag a firmer, more structured feel than the lighter cotton bags elsewhere on this list.
6. Mesh Market Bag
Fiona Potts at Handy Finch works this one in the round from a spiral mesh granny square base, gathered at the sides with foundation single crochet handles, in worsted weight yarn (three skeins) on a J/K hook.
7. Rustic Market Bag
Coffee ‘n Crochet builds this one from a round bottom worked in a mandala pattern that transitions into open mesh netting for the body, in DK or worsted weight yarn on a 4mm hook, a different base construction from the mesh panel and treble mesh bags elsewhere on this list.
8. Crochet Market Bag
Erin at Simply Made by Erin works an open mesh of double crochet and chain spaces from an expanded base, then finishes with a single crochet band and handles. It’s about 13 inches tall and 12 inches wide, using roughly 220 yards of bulky yarn.
