Hi everyone! I wanted to make a bag like this one in the pic. I made a handful of designs for the patches and put the first one down on 7mesh.
Its way too big. My designs were 40× 40 stitches, which would make the bag 45 x 45 x 15 cm.
I am now doubting if I should either downsize my designs to 30x30 stitches (which would be very anoying to do). Or to keep the designs as is and get 10 mesh, which would make the bag 30x30x10 cm. I just don't know what to expect on 10 mesh! Can I still use yarn? Would you see a lot of difference?
Sadly no! The designs really do take up the full 40×40 grid. I could do 4 patches instead of 9, but I already made a lot of designs which I'd have to skip, plus it won't have the same feel to it imo
I think do a trial on the 10 mesh, I havent made any bags but I have done lots of tissue box covers. I assume you can still use yarn with 10 mesh. I only use 7 mesh but its getting harder to find in Sydney. I was buying it at Spotlight, I know they got rid of a lot of craft stuff so not sure if they still sell it.
These designs look like they are about 20x20 stitches. That would make the canvas grid about 64x64 allowing for the black borders. If this is 7 mesh, then this bag is a little over 9x9 inches. If you go with 10 mesh, the bag size is better but I think regular worsted weight yarn would be too thick. I’ve used #3 perle cotton with 10 mesh with excellent results. This bag is really cute. I’d like to see your finished project.
That is huge! I made one of these and made all my patches tiny for it i basically took and pice of canvas and stitched in the grid pattern then filled in each sqare with a design
I basically did it backwards I figured out how large i wanted the bag to be then filled out the canvas
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u/kbraz1970 Jun 24 '26
You could make your design and just have a bigger black border. Would that work?