Hello all!
So, once again, I've been inspired by the wonderful people who run the Ravelry Designer's Challenge.
The July/August Challenge was to create a bag using Miters, and an idea came to me almost instantly.
I went diving deep into my stash, and came up with several partial skeins of Red Heart Eco-Cotton (sadly, now discontinued, but any 'dishcloth cotton' should suffice just perfectly for this!)
Although I knit this in what's classified as an Aran yarn, pretty much any yarn weight would work for this, which makes it a great stash-buster!
The base is started using the same cast-on that you would use for toe-up socks. One the base is wide enough and deep enough, mitered squares are added right onto the live stitches. The photo shows three 'tiers' of squares, but if you wanted a deeper bag, you could add more! The squares are joined together by picking up and knitting stitches from the squares below.
Then, the mouth of the bag has eyelets for a twisted cord and a striped garter-stitch edge.
What's not shown here is that there is a second option for the bag bottom -- there's a tapered bottom, (which is the one shown), and I have plans to add in an option for a flatter, more circular bottom, as well.
Well, regardless, I'm hoping to have this up for testing as soon as I get the layout work done! Thanks for reading, and I plan to check back in soon!
So, once again, I've been inspired by the wonderful people who run the Ravelry Designer's Challenge.
The July/August Challenge was to create a bag using Miters, and an idea came to me almost instantly.
I went diving deep into my stash, and came up with several partial skeins of Red Heart Eco-Cotton (sadly, now discontinued, but any 'dishcloth cotton' should suffice just perfectly for this!)
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| Photography: Stephanie Wallace |
The base is started using the same cast-on that you would use for toe-up socks. One the base is wide enough and deep enough, mitered squares are added right onto the live stitches. The photo shows three 'tiers' of squares, but if you wanted a deeper bag, you could add more! The squares are joined together by picking up and knitting stitches from the squares below.
Then, the mouth of the bag has eyelets for a twisted cord and a striped garter-stitch edge.
What's not shown here is that there is a second option for the bag bottom -- there's a tapered bottom, (which is the one shown), and I have plans to add in an option for a flatter, more circular bottom, as well.
Well, regardless, I'm hoping to have this up for testing as soon as I get the layout work done! Thanks for reading, and I plan to check back in soon!
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