Free knitting Patterns for tote bags, purses, shoulder bags, clutches, and more designed to use up scrap or leftover yarn. Updated 3/22/24.
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Sassy Summer Satchel
Easy tote bag knit flat in strips of different textures and colors. Great stash buster for Bulky weight yarn. Designed by Tanya Thomann.
Saco Fandango
Easy tote bag knit flat in one rectange with garter stitch and creatively folded and seamed. Knit with leftover DK weight yarn, so it's a great stash buster. Designed by Filipa Carneiro.
Autumn Sky Purse
Tote bag with a variety of designs including stripes, checkerboard, diagonal stripes, and bobbles. Designed for at least 4 colors, it's great for stash busting. Size 8 inches square. Designed by Jackie Daugherty. Worsted weight yarn.
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Sassy's Stash Sack
Easy drawstring bag designed to use of leftover yarn odds and ends. Worsted weight yarn. Designed by Sassy Skein. Pictured projects by designer and cyndim
Scrap Bag
This tote is knit in slip stitch colorwork with short lengths of scrap yarn of different colors so it’s the perfect stash buster for small amounts of yarn. Insert plastic canvas in the front back and base to give it sturdiness. The finished bag is 28 cm wide, 27 cm tall and 8 cm deep. Designed by Frankie Brown.
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Dots and Stripes Purse
Colorful bag with 2 sections of stranded colorwork and a braided handle. Great stashbuster for using scrap and leftover yarn. DK weight yarn. Designed by Patti Henry. Pictured project by designer and buffoo
Japanese Knot Wristlet
Mini pinwheel purse with Japanese Knot closure knit in garter stitch rectangles knit together as you go. There are lots of constructions and diagrams but the construction does take some thought. Perfect stash buster for scrap DK weight yarn. Designed by Sally Hall.
Curling Waves Striped Bag
Lisa Gentry’s easy striped purse is made with five colors of yarn. Also known as Red Heart Color Knit Bag LW3060
African Adventure Bag
Purse using the modular shells and slipstitch-bands designed by Horst Schulz for his African Adventure Afghan. Designed by Phazelia. Available in English, German, and Norwegian.
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Handy Bag
Drawstring bags knit in a 4 round repeat using small amounts of twelve colors of yarn in a slip stitch pattern. The drawstrings have a magnetic clasp so that the bag can be fastened. Two sizes included but easily adapted for other sizes. Pictured large bag is 37 cm tall and 22 cm wide and the smaller one is about half the size. Great stashbuster for leftover DK weight yarn. Designed by Frankie Brown.
Slip Stitch Mosaic Tote
Sampler tote bag purse with 5 different blocks knit with slip stitch colorwork with only one yarn color per row. Designed for at least 4 colors of worsted yarn, it's great for stash busting. Designed by Lion Brand.
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Knitwords Tote Bag
Knitting themed tote is perfect for carrying your yarn projects with the words Knit, Purl, Yarn, YOK2TOG, Cast On, P2K2, and Bind Off in stranded colorwork. Options for smaller size and felting. Available as individual pattern or as part of an ebook with 8 other Knitwords patterns. Designed by Cori Eichelberger.
Felted Stained Glass Fan Bag
This modular tote comes with two versions of the bag - one that is has multiple colors per fan and one that uses only one color per fan. Designed by Madeline Langan. Worsted weight yarn.
Fun Fish Purse
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