String Market Shopping Bag Knitting Patterns

It’s the season of farmers markets and farm stands, so it’s a great time to knit a string bag to hold all your goodies. Here are a few great options I found on Etsy.

The BYOB Market Bag from Wyndlestraw Desgins has a solid pattern stitch for the base and handles, giving it extra strength, with a ridged eyelet pattern on the body.

Darling J’Adore uses a super open lacy stitch on their produce bag knitting pattern. It has Garter Stitch handles for ease in carrying.

The Rainbow Market Bag from Womble Knits is a colorful knit mesh that spirals up the bag but isn’t difficult to knit. It also has a Garter Stitch base and handles.

This pattern from Cozy Knit Life actually offers two pattern options, one that uses storebought circular handles (you could also knit straps) and one with backpack straps that serve as a drawstring closure.

And if you need a bag to store some of your produce in the fridge, try this reusable bag knitting pattern made to replace plastic produce bags, designed by Yai Grushka. It has a knit drawstring to keep things secure and is easy to knit.

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I can’t resist a pattern that’s both useful and a little silly, and that’s exactly how I feel about the Rybka pouch pattern from the delightfully named Rat and Sea Witch.

I know you’re going to ask, because I did, too. Rybka means little fish in Polish. (And because you’re also probably going to ask, Rat and Sea Witch comes from people’s attempts to say the designer’s name, Ratasiewicz, which if you say it fast kind of sounds like rat and sea witch.)

It’s easy to make a little fish bag in different sizes to suit your needs. The pattern has specific instructions for an Airpods Pro case and a pencil case, but you could change the length easily to hold more stuff, and change the size in general by working with a different weight of yarn.

The pattern calls for sock yarn and mohair held together to make a fingering weight gauge, but you could try it with heavier yarn and see what size bag you end up with.

Whatever size you make it, this looks like a fun project for holding trinkets or everyday items. The mouth of the fish is the mouth of the bag, and it closes with a drawstring that is also the strap. I wonder, too, if you could make one of these with a small clasp frame that could be the fish’s mouth and then you could just work I cord straps that would attach to the sides of the fish.

I could also see stripes, or fish of different colors to use up your yarn leftovers. How about a sunglasses case with a little loop to attach to your bag? Once you start thinking about all the ways you could use a fish-shaped bag in your life, I think you’ll see that you probably need more than one.

If you make one of these I would love to know how it went!

You can grab a copy of the pattern on Ravelry.

[Photo: Rat and Sea Witch]

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