knit purse: fail

The plan for a bag relies on the rectangle in a round knit piece. It was simply to use the rectangles to make a bag about 20 stitches high, 30 wide, and 9 deep. The brown sides are started from the middle so that they'll come to 9x20 stitches. The variegated Starts purling down one of those brown edges, along the bottom, then up the other side. Stitches are chained on for the flap to go over the top and down about 14 stitches, then the other brown piece was purled on three sides, and finally stitches for the front were chained on. Once the border of that larger rectangle was established, the middle was filled in until finally the stitches were grafted together (like sock toes). The safety pins are holding the live stitches where a handle can be attached.



Knitted on #6 needles with sugar'n cream. It was chosen to be 9 stitches deep so that 3 I-cords could be knitted from them and braided together for the handle, with a piece of flat knitting over the shoulder for comfort, perhaps. This makes it deeper (2" at the bottom, 2.5" at the middle) than really desired. It came out 3.5" high and 6" wide at the edge but 8.5" wide at the bottom. This is a fair bit wider than was hoped for.

The handle was probably going to make it pull open at the sides annoyingly anyway. It'll be pulled apart to make another one with a different and hopefully better design.


Maybe I'll try a "gunslinger" style, like the scribble to the left. Perfect for cell phones, of course. It'll be a greater challenge to get it so it doesn't pull open at the sides a bit.