This is a granny square grip bag for a young gymnast I know who requested it earlier this week. Her only request was pink. That gave me slight pause as I really do not have much pink in my stash, but I managed to find some. I have made two other grip bags for girls on her team, but I worked in a circle to make a standard drawstring bag. I wanted something different this time so I decided a granny square bag was as different as I could get from the other two bags. I used an I hook and I made four traditional granny squares with the colors white, pink, and purple in different patterns to make each square different. The bottom of the bag I made a no hole granny square to make a solid base.
I single crocheted with the pink to join each square to the base and on the edges. This made it look very much like a cube as my three year old thought I was making. For the top I crocheted around the top evenly, then I decreased three stitches on each side for three rounds. I crocheted around evenly one more time, then I did two double crochets, ch 2, sk 1 st, two double crochets around. Then I single crocheted evenly around one more time and Finished off. To make the drawstring I ch 80 with some specialty yarn given to me by my neighbor and wove it through all the openings and tied bow.
This bag is super pretty and came out just the way I imagined!
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