Everything you need to know about jute bags

Crocheted and knitted jute bags are a popular accessory that meets all modern environmental standards. They are practical, durable, fashionable and easy to maintain. How to tie them from twine with your own hands, the description and scheme of work in simple master classes for beginners will help you figure out.

Jute bags have become fashionable thanks to the popularity of eco-friendly materials. The description of this material fully conveys its main features. Jute bags are durable, practical, and have a number of advantages.

• Attractive appearance. The material has an original texture, pleasant natural colors, looks good both in natural and in bleached or dyed form. According to its external data, jute even outperforms its main competitor - flax.
• Strength. Fiber of natural origin, after drying and processing, acquires the properties that distinguish jute ropes. The products can withstand a significant tensile force, are not afraid of the most intensive use, including in field conditions.
• Environmental friendliness. The raw materials are completely natural and meet the strictest environmental standards. Even those who have very strict requirements for the choice of accessories will not have any complaints about such bags.
• Variety of design solutions. Eco-bags made of jute are available in the form of round "tablets", string bags, shoppers, backpacks and even travel bags.
• The ability to use for printing. Natural jute fiber is an excellent platform for advertising or applying original prints. They look especially impressive on sackcloth with a relatively smooth fiber structure.
• Attractive cost. Even if you make your own jute bags, they are inexpensive.

These are the main features of jute bags. It is also important to remember that natural fiber, when knitted independently, has a specific smell. You can solve the problem by choosing well-processed and bleached threads for needlework.

Jute eco-bags are quite diverse in their shape, size and functionality. Miniature round products for everyday wear equipped with a shoulder strap. Large and roomy shopper absolutely irreplaceable during shopping trips. Such shopping bags can withstand significant loads and fit comfortably in the hand.

Stylish Christmas bag-sack is the perfect container for gifts for children or a holiday set of cosmetics. Such a present will be appreciated even by the most dedicated fan of an eco-friendly lifestyle.

They can be not only beige - often bleached or black thread is used, dyed in the shade of aqua, fresh grass, straw yellow.

Branded bags with a logo, for example from H&M, are often made trapezoidal, keeping the principles of hand knitting. Small snails are great for everyday wear. Such a women's summer handbag - natural, "breathable" - fits well into images with denim clothes.

Eco-friendly jute bags are the perfect solution for your beach holiday. They can have rigid or braided handles, complemented by various decorative elements.

They are not afraid of contact with sand and the sun, they always look great, have a variety of configurations.

Burlap bags are a great shopping solution. Unlike beach shoppers, they do not knit, but sewn from a dense and durable burlap. These products can easily be printed with logos and other images. Popular prints include ethnic elements, slogans aimed at maintaining eco-traditions.

Holiday options are also popular. For example, red and white bags with deer, snowflakes, Christmas trees are the best container for New Year's gifts. Special wine models are also produced, vertically oriented. They serve as a good packaging for drinks purchased as a gift.

A simple master class with a diagram for making a jute bag with your own hands is the best choice for those who for the first time decide to knit a fashion accessory from twine. Twisted or braided yarn can be used to make summer beachwear or a shopping bag. Crocheted and knitted from dense jute twine products are noticeably different from those that can be created with classic yarn. They hold their shape perfectly, are resistant to tears and stress.

To acquire a fashionable crocheted jute twine accessory, you will need to prepare a certain set of tools and consumables. To shape the product, circles of the desired diameter are used, the optimal size is 200 mm. They can be cut from thin plywood, thick cardboard, and other dense materials. You will also have to choose jute yarn of the desired shade (2.5 skeins), 3 skeins of Iris threads for decoration - a pompom or a brush for a keychain is made from them, but you can use any other decor.

It is recommended to knit jute products with crochet # 4. To create a soft lining, felt of the desired color (white, silver, beige) with a thickness of 4 mm is useful. For attaching the handle, carabiners are useful - preferably from materials that are not subject to corrosion, and you also need to prepare an 18 cm long zipper with plastic teeth.

The scheme for creating a bag looks like this.

• 2 identical parts are created using the amigurumi technique. First, a ring of 6 single crochets is knitted. Then each circle is added 6 columns alternating through a row. On the 2nd circle, the addition falls on every 1 loop. On row 3, there is an increase for every 3 column - this order remains until the end of knitting.
• When a "wave" appears in knitting, you need to make a correction. There is no need to dissolve the ranks. It is enough to knit 1 circle without increments. Otherwise, you should focus on the marker, trying to adhere to the pattern of alternating rows.
• Knitting of the main parts continues until their diameter exceeds the dimensions of the insert circle... In the final row, you can knit another 1/2 part of the semicircle. Finished parts are ironed and steamed.
• The main part of the bag is assembled. To do this, circles are cut out of felt, each half is assembled with a frame inside, a detail connected from jute is obtained from the outside, then a rigid shape and a soft lining. All elements are sewn with a needle and thread.
• The base is knitted from air loops in an amount corresponding to the number of columns in the last row of the side parts of the bag. It is recommended to add a knitted yarn thread to the jute fiber. Then the product is knitted in a ring, the width is arbitrary, a hole is made in the middle along the length of the zipper - this part is created in the form of another chain of air loops. Knitting of the next row continues along it, then the finished part is steamed, ironed, supplemented with a felt lining (optional).
• All elements of the future bag are connected by half-columns in a circle. If necessary, decrease the number of loops. The zipper is sewn in by hand with a thick needle and jute thread. It is necessary to make fairly wide stitches, free, as close to the teeth as possible, slightly pulling the fastener while working.
• The handle is knitted... The optimal width of the belt is up to 5 cm, it is better to make a shoulder mount with a length of 120-130 cm (5 cm will go to mount to carabiners). The finished handle is sewn onto the carabiner. 2 rings on the sides are inserted into the frame of the bag. Fittings are attached to them.
• The product is decorated. You can make bright tassels or pom-poms that are attached to the zipper with a small carabiner, chain or any other decoration. Bright colored details look good with jute.

A stylish pill bag is ready. It can be gifted or used to complement stylish summer looks.

A spacious beach bag with comfortable handles for carrying on the shoulder or carrying in your hands can be easily crocheted with a regular crochet hook. The product consists of a base 40 × 18 cm wide and 2 handles 60 cm each. For knitting, use hook No. 5, jute twine or thread (about 250 m in total), cord and rubber / silicone tubes for the handles. Accessory items include safety pins, a large-eye needle and scissors.

The procedure is the simplest: first, the base of the bag is knitted, then handles are attached to it, the ends of the thread are hidden. The average density of the pattern is 15 rows of 12 columns per 10 × 10 cm square. The pattern is formed on the basis of 2 air loops +1. Knitting takes place according to the following pattern.

• With 1 air lifting loops knit a row corresponding to the total size of the bag - 80 cm on 2 sides. Single crochet stitches are used.
• 2 row is knitted with 3 loops ascent to the end of the circle. The pattern will repeat. For the "asterisk", a yarn is made, then the hook is inserted into 2 in order of the loop, then into 3, into the corner and into 2 initial in the chain. All of them are knitted. The element ends with an air loop, then everything is repeated anew - you get an "asterisk" with 5 rays.
• Until the desired height is set, rows are alternated with single crochet and a pattern. The bottom is knitted with single crochet, in a circle, closed with an oval amigurumi and tightened. Above the pattern, there should be 5-7 rows of single crochets.
• Handles are knitted according to the diameter of the tubes, which are placed in them, in a circle, fasteners are placed at the edges.All elements are sewn to each other. The finished product can be decorated to your liking.

Tote bags aren't just great on the beach. They are roomy enough to carry hand luggage when traveling or for everyday shopping.

Stylish eco-bag for everyday use can be knitted with a pattern or in a classic manner - single crochet.

For knitting, you will need colored or unpainted jute, hook number 4, zipper, accessories for attaching handles. The product is knitted in the form of separate pieces of a rectangular format in size:

• 28 × 34 cm (back and flap);
• 26 × 18 cm (front);
• 28 × 10 cm (bottom);
• 10 × 17.5 cm - 2 parts (sidewalls).

The procedure will be as follows.

• Tie the sides and bottom with single crochets, it is easier to make them in 1 piece, increasing the total length of the strip to 45.5 cm, but you can do it separately.
• If knitting is done with a pattern, you need to take this into account. In this case, a rectangle 18 × 28 cm is knitted with single crochets, then an ornament is introduced. A simpler and more functional handbag can be made without a pattern. Then, having knitted all 34 cm of length, the master will receive a finished piece in the same style.
• The front part is knitted with single crochets.
• All elements are crocheted. The "rachiy step" is used for greater decorativeness.
• The lining is cut out, the zipper is sewn in.
• Finally, tie the shoulder strap, connect it with carabiners or directly with the sides of the product.
• Decorate the bag you can use decorative keychains, knitted flowers or any other details. If desired, the product can be made colored or striped.

Jute is a fairly easy material to care for, but certain rules for handling it should still be strictly observed.

It is important to consider that Recently knitted from jute yarn, things are losing lint quite intensively. Over time, this problem will be neutralized.

Finished products, if they are knitted from high-quality yarn, do not require washing throughout their entire operation. Dry cleaning is enough to restore their appearance. Over time, the bag may darken or yellow slightly. In case of strong wetting, the rigidity of the product increases; washing of frame models is not recommended.

Drying is carried out naturally, in the sun or in the open air, you cannot put the bag on the heating radiator, hold it over the heater.

How to knit a round jute bag, see the video.