{"id":560,"date":"2020-08-03T13:46:40","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T17:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.girlnovember.com\/blog\/?p=560"},"modified":"2020-08-03T13:46:40","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T17:46:40","slug":"completed-my-first-crossbody-bag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.girlnovember.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/03\/completed-my-first-crossbody-bag\/","title":{"rendered":"Completed My First Crossbody Bag"},"content":{"rendered":"

While I’ve knit tote bags before, this was my first wearable purse. I came up with the design after searching for something simple and comfortable to wear, and in a color that was neutral but that wouldn’t easily show wear. <\/p>\n

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A hand knit crossbody bag in tan and brown with a long strap.<\/p><\/div>\n

I had to experiment with a strap design. I initially knit a strap in the round, but it was too narrow and didn’t look right with the bag. Nothing like frogging a couple days worth of knitting.
\nIn the end, a simple dual-strand garter stitch strap worked out perfectly. <\/p>\n

If I were to tweak this design, it would be with the insert — I’d make it deeper to allow for the bag to stretch more, and include reinforced pockets. I wasn’t a fan of hand sewing the liner into the bag, but I was very happy with how it turned out. I love the fabric I used and wish I had more of it for a bag for myself. Unfortunately there was only enough fabric for this one bag, which is happily off to its new owner. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While I’ve knit tote bags before, this was my first wearable purse. I came up with the design after searching for something simple and comfortable to wear, and in a color that was neutral but that wouldn’t easily show wear. I had to experiment with a strap design. I initially knit a strap in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,34,10,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafting","category-creative","category-knitting","category-sewing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.girlnovember.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.girlnovember.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.girlnovember.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.girlnovember.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.girlnovember.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.girlnovember.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.girlnovember.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.girlnovember.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.girlnovember.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}