Project Notes: String Bag in Expensive Cotton

The string bag project is here.

I tried ursula1972's string bag pattern, found here.

Done with a 2.5 mm (size C) Clover hook and cotton yarn (Linie 12 Clip) (at $12.50 a skein, and a little over 1 skein needed, not cheap! (well, I do get a Guild discount. Yay Local Yarn Shop)). The yarn is 100% Egyptian cotton, mercerized. 100 grams to 166 meters. Suggested gauge is 26 rows by 20 stitches for a 10 cm by 10 cm swatch. Suggest to use 3.5 to 4.5 mm needles.

I don't like the handles. I did more than 48 double crochets in each handle, and the end result is a the chain stitches still carry the weight, though they probably cut into the hand less. I am thinking that the next one I make (size 3 crochet cotton) I will do single crochets over the handle, maybe back and forth 4 times instead of 2.

I also ordered this linen yarn, in sandalwood, with the string bag pattern. I do hope it's not Turkish stitch....



ETA: more detailed info about the cotton yarn.