Need Crochet Pattern -- shopping bag

Thanks, Lucille, but it wasn't quite what I was looking for. I had in mind the mesh ones that every good European housewife keeps tucked in her pocket in case she finds something worth buying. They used to make them out of leftover string; my pattern was for Knit-Cro-Sheen.

Would this be the one

Canadian Living Magazine have a good crochet bag

Larger than I had in mind, but adaptable. THANKS!

I KNEW someone here would have made one and know where to find it!

Thanks, gang!

Now off to Herrschners to order a rainbow of crochet cotton to make oodles of bags for Christmas gifts. :)

The one in Canadian Living has a round base but I also have another pattern from Canadian Living that is not on the web for basically the same bag without a base...Let me know if you want that one as well. I can scan it and sent it by email to you.

A word of warning. I made several of these some years back - long before they became fashionable again, so I made up the pattern myself and had them the same dimensions as a paper grocery sack. They worked beautifully, BUT, if you try to put anything heavy in them, the handles will just about cut through your fingers! I still keep a couple in the car, plus one in the house, along with all my canvas ones, and they are excellent for lightweight things, but DO NOT attempt to carry a ten-pound bag of potatoes in one, you will regret it.

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.

I saw these bags once at a craft fair and the seller had somehow worked the handle inside a piece of surgical tubing to make them easier on the hands. I am not sure how it was done but might be interesting to try.

Padding! :)

I have some foam tube "toe bandages" that could easily be slipped over the handles before you attach the second end. Or you could slit the tube and affix snaps so you can wrap it around the handles as needed.

Some craft shops sell roundish, wooden rings, for just that purpose.