wayuu crochet mochilas 2

The beautiful bags by Rianne de Graaf are already extremely popular thanks to her first book Wayuu Mochilas haken. Rianne designed a whole new collection for this book. With of course the well-known round bags with colorful patterns, but also oval bags, a backpack, pencil cases and a real beach bag.

Rianne also explains in this new book step by step how to crochet the patterns in the bags with multiple colors at the same time. All patterns are described in the smallest details, so that every enthusiastic crocheter and crocheter can get started with it.

For the shoulder straps, Rianne used the technique of weaving bands. With this fun weaving technique, you can make beautiful handles that go very well with the colorful mochilas. For making the closing cords, she teaches you to braid with five to seven loops.