Mermaid Tears Purse is Complete

My Mermaid Tears Purse is finally finished! You can get the pattern for free here at the Bernat yarn website. It is rated as intermediate but I thought it was really easy. I did modify the strap making it a cross body bag. To do this I just chained 13, slip stitch to first chain, and single crochet in the round, creating a tube. I would suggest making the strap 1/2 a foot shorter than you think it needs to be because once you put stuff in the bag it pulls it down. These photos are with the bag empty. As I mentioned in a earlier post I used sugar & cream yarn from Michael's and peaches & cream yarn from Wal-mart. If you have any questions let me know!! I really loved making this bag and I've been using it for a few days and its great.

Mermaid Tears Crochet Purse

I have been working on a pattern I found on raverly.com that came from the Bernat site. It is called the mermaid tears purse. I have seen a lot of pins on Pinterest with the scale-like crochet pattern. It is so simple, just a bunch of double crochet!!!

I started using yarn from Michael's (sugar and cream by Lily) but 2 skeins didn't get me far, I had to buy 3 more from Walmart. I had no idea that they carried a totally different brand called peaches and cream!!! Sugar and cream is $1.99 a skein at Michael's and peaches and cream is $1.77 at Walmart. The sugar and cream is so much softer and silkier and I think they have better more "useable" colors. I was surprised that the aqua blues are almost identical. But the sugar and cream yarn is so much more
superior in texture.