Decorating the beach bag with knitted shells and sea stars

Exotic marine sinks are such gentle, exquisite and differently diverse! Flying by the sun, brought by waves, stored secrets of unknown depths. It is not surprising that it is them of them to take into memory of traveling to the sea. Probably, each of us is at home there is a cherished box with these extractive memories ... And how nice once the cold winter evening open it, stroke the risks of the smooth pearl sides of the sinks, attach one of them to the ear and hear the distant, slightly audible song of the sea. ..

But now in the yard summer (yes, I insist)! Time of interesting travel, new dating, bright impressions, time of joy. And what can please a woman stronger than a new bag? Moreover, the bag is beach!

Therefore, taking into account all the above and throwing the lyrics, I suggest you today to decorate the beach bag with man-made (and, or rather, hooking) sinks and marine stars. What do we need for this?

Firstly, We need a bag itself. You can link it with a crochet of cotton or flax, or sew from a dense textured fabric, or buy ready-made, or get the wardrobe shelves your old beloved beach bag and give her a new life. The choice is yours!

I will decorate here such a laconic handbag measuring 36 to 28 cm, knitted with a crochet of merceerized cotton of milk color, with an oval bottom and shaft knobs.

Secondly We will need a suitable yarn for our seashells and marine stars. I suggest to take a wonderful cotton thread of Charm from Vita Cotton (50g / 106m) Color No. 4153 Milk (from this yarn, by the way, my bag is connected), and a thin cotton thread Anna 16 is suitable for decoration (100g / 530m) color number 284 beige.

Thirdly We will need knitting hooks - No. 2, 5 for the first string and number 1 for the second.

Well, all the little things without an account - coil threads, needles, scissors and necessarily - a good mood!

So, we start! (I apologize for the different color of the background on collages and other amazing things that happened to my photos - filmed with natural light, and it changes every five minutes with our wonderful summer weather.)

Knit shell spiral

1. We recruit a chain of five air loops, closure into the ring.
2. We make one loop of lifting and knit into this ring sequentially: two columns without a nakida, two semi-rolls with nakid, eight columns with Nakud - Total 12 Stakes.
3. We knit on the spirals in the columns of the previous row, two columns in each loop of the base: four times two columns with an attachment into each loop - just eight columns with Nakud.
4. We continue to knit in the same way: five times two columns with two campaigns in each loop - only ten columns with two camids; Eleven times two columns with three nakides in each loop - only twenty-two columns with three nakidami.
5. We bind our shell with a thin string along the spiral, ranging from the center, alternating two air loops and a semi-solubister without a nakid in each column, hooking a crochet his upside down loop.
6. The outer edge is tied up, alternating two air loops and a semi-solitary without an attachment to each loop of the base.

Knit bivalve shell

1. We recruit a chain of five air loops, closure into the ring.
2. We make four lifting loops and knit into this ring eight columns with two nakid.
3. No closure knitting, turn it and knit the second row: Three loops of the rise plus another air loop, then alternate - one embossed facial column with an attachment to each loop of the base of the previous row, one air loop; We finish a number of a column with an attachment in the lifting loop of the previous series. Attention! When knitting a relief facial column capture the thread is not the body of the lower column, but the jumper between the base loops of the previous row.
4. Turn the knitting, knitting the third row: five lifting loops, two columns with three nakida in pico from the air loop of the previous row, one embossed facial column with three nakida in a column with an embarrassment of the previous row (this time, when knitting capture the filament body of the lower column); We alternate until the end of the row, finish the column with three nakida in the lifting loop of the previous row.
5. Turn the knitting, knit the fourth row: one loop of lifting, one column without an attachment in each loop of the base of the previous row.
6. Turn the knitting, knit the fifth row: one lift loop, then alternate - three air loops, one embossed facial column without an attachment in every third column of the previous series; We finish a row by a column without an attachment in the lifting loop of the previous row.
7. We link the tip of the shell and its edge to the method similar to that described above.

Knit shell-nautilus

1. We recruit a chain of five air loops, closure into the ring.
2. We make three lifting loops and knit in this ring twelve columns with an attachment, closing a row by a connecting column.
3. Knit one lifting loop and then in series in each column of the previous row: two columns without an ingredient in one base loop, two semi-solids with an outline in one base loop.
4. We continue: two columns with an attachment into one base loop - two times, two columns with two nakida in one base loop - twice.
5. We continue: three columns with three nakida in one base loop, three columns with four nakida in one base loop.
6. And finish: three columns with five nakida in one loop of the base, three columns with six nakida in one base loop.
7. We bind the shell-nautilus thin string in the same way as the shell-spiral was tied.

Knit shell-cone

1. We recruit a chain of five air loops, closed in a circle.
2. We make three lifting loops and knit into this ring six columns with Nakud.
3. No closure knitting, turn it and make four loops of the rise plus one loop, then alternate - one embossed facial column with two nakida in each loop of the base, one air loop; We finish a row of a column with two nakida in the lifting loops of the previous row. Attention! When knitting a relief facial column capture the thread is not the body of the column, but the jumper between the loops of the base of the previous row.
4. Turn the knitting, knit the third row: one loop of the lift, two columns without an inlet in pico from the air loop of the previous row, one embossed facial column without an attachment in a column with two embers of the previous row (this time when knitting capture the thread body of the column); We alternate until the end of the row, finish the column without an attachment in the lifting loop of the previous row.
5. Without breaking the threads, we recruit a chain of thirty-two air loops.
6. Knit into this chain sequentially, one post in each loop, starting with the third of the hook: two semi-sololbik with nakid, two columns with one nakid, two columns with two embers.
7. We continue, now one pinches in each second loop of the chain: two columns with three nakidami, two columns with four nakida, two columns with five nakidami.
8. And finish: two columns with six nakidami, two columns with family nakidami, two columns with eight nakidami; We make a connecting column in the last column without an insertion of the previous row.
9. We bind the tip of the shell and its rim already familiar to us with a thin stride; The cone body itself is taking into one near the columns without Nakid.

Knit shell-rounded

1. We recruit a chain of five air loops, closure into the ring.
2. We make one lifting loop and knit in this ring eight columns without a nakid, closing a number of connective column.
3. Knit five lifting loops, and then two columns with three nakida in each column without a preceding series.
4. We are closed by a number of connective column.
5. Our circle turned out slightly concave; Weighing the effect, sticking a row of semi-solvents without a Nakid one in each column with three nakida of the previous series.
6. Slightly I will spin our shell and turn it clockwise to create a spiral effect.
7. We deliver a thin string of a sequence of a seashell to us with a way.

Knit shell-ovalchik

1. We recruit a chain of six air loops plus five lifting loops.
2. In each loop, the chain, starting with the sixth of the hook, knit a column with three nakids, and in the last loop - four columns with three nakidami.
3. Turn the knitting and knit on the column with three nakides from the opposite side of the chain, and in the last loop - three columns with nakid.
4. Close the circle with a connecting column in the lifting loop.
5. It turned out a concave oval; Weighing the effect, sticking a row of semi-solids without a Nakid one in each loop of the base of the previous row.
6. Slightly I will spin our shell and turn it clockwise to create a spiral effect.
7. We assign a central shell line with usual way.

Knit a big starfish

1. We recruit a chain of five air loops, closer into the ring, make three loops of lifting and knit into this ring nine columns with Nakud; We are closed by a number of connective column.
2. We make one lifting loop, knit one column without a nakid to the next loop of the base, we skip one loop, knit a column with an attachment to the second-hand loop of the base; And then pick up a chain of ten air loops plus one lifting loop.
3. Knit into this chain sequentially: one half-tissue without a nakida, one column without a nakida, one semi-solol with an attachment, four columns with one nakid, three columns with two nakidami.
4. In the same loop of the foundation of the circle, as the previous column with Nakid, knit another column with Nakid, without tolding it to the end; Then in the second loop of the base knit the second non-touch column with Nakud.
5. In prior to these two columns together, connecting them with vertices.
6. We recruit a chain from eleven air loops and in the same way knit the next ray of the star, they all turn out five; We clic down a number of connective column in the very first column with the Nakud of this row.
7. We bind the fine thread along the contour already known to us.

Knit a little starfish

1. We recruit a chain of five air loops, closer into the ring, make two loops of the lift and knit into this ring five pairs of columns with one nakid, closed together (two lifting loops are considered for one column with Nakud), separating these pairs with chains of four air loops.
2. We are closed by a number of connective column.
3. We make one lifting loop and knit into the top of the connected columns with an embarrassment of the previous row of one column without Nakid, and then pick up a chain of six air loops.
4. Knit into this chain sequentially, starting from the third from the hook of the column: one column without a Nakida, one semi-sololbik with an attachment, one column with an attachment, one column with two nakid.
5. We make one column without Nakid to the next vertex of the connected columns with the Nakida of the previous row.
6. Similarly, knit the remaining four rays of our star, closing a number of connective column.
7. We bind the asterisk along the contour with a thin thread usual to us.

Knit Omners

1. We recruit a chain of five air loops, closer into the ring, make one lifting loop and knit into this ring ten columns without an attachment: closing a number of connective column.
2. Knit six lifting loops, and then two columns with four nakida in each column without a preceding series; We are closed by a number of connective column.
3. It turned out a slightly concave circle; Weighing the effect, sticking a row of semi-solids without a Nakid one in each column with four nakida of the previous row.
4. Next, we gain a chain of twenty-five air loops plus one lifting loop and knit into this chain consistently, one post in each loop: ten columns without an inlet, ten semi-solids with an attachment, five columns with Nakud.
5. We have a connecting column to the third loop of the base of the previous row and one semi-solitary without an attachment in the next loop.
6. Similarly, knit the remaining four beams of worship; A little secret - so that they are beautifully bent clockwise, a chain of air loops is touched, and the tops of the columns knit more.
7. We are tied up with a thin string of the rays of ie and its middle of the usual way to us.

And so quickly, beautiful and with pleasure, we harm the number of marine elements you need. I contacted five spirals, six pieces of bivalves and cones, seven nautilus, one round and two ovalchik, one small starfish and two big, and one beautiful-friend. Here is a bunch!

Now we consider the placement of this wealth on our beach bag. There is a lot of options! You can post shells with a cut along the bottom edge, one of the corners can be filled with them, you can finally seize several single elements in different places. The choice is for you! I also wanted to create an Effect of ancient placer on a distant exotic beach ... Therefore, I spent a few exciting hours, collecting on the surface of my handbag here such a puzzle (which in the process of eating, as usual changes undergoes).

So, with the location option, we decided, you can proceed to the next step - the preparation of the elements to the sewing. To disappear and block them will not disrupt the surface relief and the easy charming malfunction inherent in natural objects. If you still want to relete some elements, you can put them for a couple of hours between the layers of the terry canvas under a small load (for example, under a stack of several books of large format).

To sew our seashells and starfishes we will be secret stitches, clinging the needle rear arc strapping columns. Free edges of elements, if they are, do not sew. Try not to do too many stitches and do not tighten them too much - shells must save volume. If you, like me, sew the elements to the knitted canvase, stretch the thread under the outer loops of the columns, then our exhaust will remain clean and neat.

Attention! The photo is made with contracepted thread for clarity. In fact, sew the elements with a coil thread in color!

Well, the knitted sea souvenirs are sewn and the handbag is almost ready!. Carefully remap her from the inside, let's dry - and go ahead, in the summer, attract the admiring glances of passersby, listen to the admiration of acquaintances, and just enjoy life!

Thanks for attention! I hope my master class will come in handy. I myself do not really like to needle how to make ready-made templates, so I tried to leave for you the maximum freedom of action. Inspire, create, create beautiful things, please yourself and your loved ones. I wish you all summer heat, solar mood and the sea of ​​bright impressions!

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