This messenger bag abounds with sturdy practicality, but it conveys a playful personality with contrasting surface crochet and dangling pom-poms. It’s just the right size to tote your essentials, along with a book and a tablet.

HOOK Size 7 (4.5 mm). Adjust hook size if necessary to obtain correct gauge.

NOTIONS 12” strip of corrugated plastic to reinforce bottom; closures; sewing thread and needle.

GAUGE 16 sts and 17 rows = 4” in sc.

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