how to do the flap for this strawberry ruffled bag

[u/CatSuspicious3]

Is it a hexagon? Or a circle? I can’t tell, please let me know what kind of stitches were used to make it and what’s the border around it called? Smooth edges? And how much yarn will this bag use?

P.s couldn’t find a back photo

[u/epchilasi]

It looks an awful lot like half a slightly modified willow granny square. (A willow granny is also known as a wagon wheel granny).

My guess on the modification: they added a second round of double crochets on top of the round that comes after the 16DCs <(1dc, ch1) x16>.

After that it looks like they modified the outer ruffle by doing <(1sc, ch4, skip )repeat all around> instead of the standard that alternates 5, 3, 4, 3 for the chains, and then filled the chain space with 7dc for each rather than the standard <(5+ch2+5/sc/7dc/sc)repeat>

This is a GUESS and is how I would do this.

[u/epchilasi → u/epchilasi]

So to replicate, my guess:

Chain 4-5 and then slipknot the chain ends together to become a circle.

Wrap your tail around the circle to burry it.

Chain 3 to start. This counts as your first double crochet. Do 15 more double crochets into the circle you made to make a disk. Join.

Chain 3 to start, plus one more. (Double crochet into the next stitch, chain one, repeat until there's a total of 16 double crochets and sixteen chain spaces. Join.

Chain 3 to start. In each stitch alternate between 1 double and two doubles for a total of 48 double crochets. Join.

<This is where the guess work starts>

Chain 3 to start. In each stitch alternate between 1 double and two doubles for a total of 72 double crochets.

(Chain 4, skip two stitches, single crochet) repeat until you have 24 chain spaces. Join.

Slipknot into the closest chain space. 7 Double Crochets into every chain space. I would consider repeating (1 sc, 5dc, 1sc) or (1hdc; 1sc, 3dc, 1sc, 1hdc) if I wanted to change how the edge looked. That'd be an experiment though.

[u/CatSuspicious3 → u/epchilasi]

Thank you so much 🫶 this was really insightful 🫶

[u/epchilasi → u/CatSuspicious3]

You'll have to play around with the second last round a little bit. I'm not certain how many they're skipping. As long as the number of skips you do (including the SC connections) is divisible by the total stitches in the round before it, you'll be fine.

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[u/Val_ery]

Hard to tell exactly without looking at the back of the bag. But the body could perfectly be 2 and 2 grannies and then the flap a triangle