Crochet Coin Bag 11

Small Purse for Sankranti Gift / New Year Gift

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Hello friends,
Yesterday I made this small purse / pouch as a gift item. New year is about to come and after that our festival "Sankranti"will come;so this is gift item for these occassions.
Makar Sankranti (Sankranti) generaly occurse on 14th or 15th of January. This is the only Indian festival which occures on a fixed date because it is as per solar cycle, all other festivals are celebrated as per Lunar cycle hence their dates are not fixed. Sankranti is the  day of the transit of the SUN from tropic of Cancer to the tropic of Capricorn (Makar Rashi). From this day onward day time becomes longer and longer. Means Sankranti is dedicated to God SUN.

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A very special sweet is made for this day, TILGUL. It is made of Sesame seeds (til)and Jaggery (gul) hence the name of the sweet til-gul. See fig 2. We also made sweet roti (soft flat bread like) stuffed by ground sesame and jaggery. See fig 3.

Ladies particularly married women meet together and give small gift to friends. Halavyache dagine (ornaments) are made for newly married girl or for newly born baby. About this I have already written in my previous post, please see,

https://alkaandart.blogspot.com/search?q=halvyache+dagine

So this is one of the reason that I made this small purse. It's dimensions are 5.5" x 4".

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Pattern: Start with chains whose length is 8", if you want to make a purse with height 4". Fig 4. I have to make 36 chs.

R1: (RS) ch 3, dc 1 in each ch, in last ch dc 6, dc 1 in each ch on other side. Place markers at

 the first and the sixth sts in corner. Fig 5.(76 sts).

NOTE: Make every dc on right side inback loop or back part  of the stitch and on wrong side every dc in front part of the stitch.

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 R2: (WS) Ch3, dc 1 in front loop (front part of v stitch) of each st till marker, dc 2 in each of the next 6 sts, dc 1 in each of the remaining sts. (82 sts) Fig 6.
R3: (RS) Ch3, dc 1 in each st till marker, (dc 2 in next, dc 1 in each of the next  st) repeat 6 times till other marker, dc 1 in each of the remaining sts. (88 sts). See fig7.

R4: Ch3, dc 1 in each st till marker, (dc 2 in next, dc 1 in each of the next 2 sts) repeat 6 times till other marker, dc 1 in each of the remaining sts. (94 sts)

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R5:  Ch3, dc 1 in each st till marker, (dc 2 in next, dc 1 in each of the next 3 sts) repeat 6 times till other marker, dc 1 in each of the remaining sts. (100 sts)

R6:  Ch3, dc 1 in each st till marker, (dc 2 in next, dc 1 in each of the next 4 sts) repeat 6 times till other marker, dc 1 in each of the remaining sts. (106 sts). Bind off keeping 1 ft for sewing.Fig 8. 

 Sew lining as in fig 9. Fold as shown in fig 10 and sew the sides. 

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Now make a small hook (as per the diameter of the button) as in fig 11. I made 6 chs hook and sew the white button. The purse looks as in fig 12.

Handle: Instead of crochet handle here I made  handle with wooden beads just for a new style and it looks stylish as shown in fig 1.

The following video may help you.

ETC: Enjoy the Creativity.