u/Independent_Tax_7366

Hi everyone! :)

I’m trying to identify a crochet pattern my mother used to make a white handbag, probably sometime in the 1970s or 1980s. She lost the bag years ago, when I wasn’t born yet, and never made another one. Since I got into crochet myself, I’d like to find this pattern to make her a bag like that and give it to her :) I’ve searched and searched even shower her pictures and all she says is “Yeah that’s similar but not quite right” 🥲

Here’s what she told me:

- The handbag was entirely white and made by joining granny squares.

- Each square had one large, raised crochet petal.
When four squares were joined together, their four petals formed a complete flower at the centre where the squares met.

- The petals were three-dimensional, somewhat elongated and folded, almost like little folded ears or padded loops.

- My mother used part of a wine cork as a tool or template. She cut off the wider, mushroom-shaped top, leaving the circular bottom section. She placed this circular part in the centre and crocheted around it to create the motif.

- She made the square directly, rather than crocheting a separate flower and then turning it into a square.

- She remembered the pattern as fairly simple to make.

This pattern may have originally been used for a crochet bedspread, possibly in a vintage pattern book. Does anyone recognise this motif, know its name, or have seen it in an old crochet or bedspread pattern book? Photos, pattern names, book titles or links would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you for helping me 🥲

So one day I (21F) went to the supermarket because I was craving chocolate. It’s literally a 2-minute walk from my apartment, so I just threw a coat over my pajamas and went.

I remember putting my wallet in my pocket, paying, putting it back, and going home. When I got back I left my coat on a chair since I was going to wear it again the next day.

Next morning arrives, I’m getting ready for college, put the jacket on and… where’s my wallet??

I searched everywhere, my bag, drawers, even under my bed (remember this spot) and nothing. I started panicking because it had everything, my bank cards, ID, my metro pass, so I couldn’t even go to class since I go by metro every day.

Then somehow, while searching my desk for the 10000th time, my metro pass just… appears. But only that. How does that even make sense if it was inside my wallet, which had completely disappeared??

Anyway, I went to class and then I went to the bank, cancel everything, remake my ID, a huge pain.

Then yesterday, I’m changing into pajamas and a 1€ coin falls under my bed. I bend down to grab it… and THERE’S MY WALLET, UNDER MY BED. But the coin? Gone. Couldn’t find it.

And I swear I had already checked multiple times and even vacuumed under there and found nothing.

The weirdest part is that the weekend I found my wallet, my parents had gone on a trip by themselves. When they got back, they told me they had visited a church called Igreja de Santo António das Causas Perdidas, basically “Saint Anthony of lost things,” who’s supposedly linked to finding stuff you’ve lost… And they said they prayed for me.

I’m not religious but that was weird and too much of a coincidence.

So yeah.. I’m just glad I found my wallet.