At 06:24 AM 12/5/05 EDT, Anita wrote: > . . . I'd like to knit a bag nice enough to do them and me proud. > Does anyone have a pattern for a knitted bag to fit on those handles - > you know the kind - with a slot at the bottom and rounded tops > with handholes???
If you do knit a bag that would do those handles proud, be sure to send Avital a photograph for her "insane knitting" page! Twelve stitches to the inch makes a fabric too coarse and stiff to "do the bag proud"; you'd need at least fifteen. Color knitting in silk, like the brocade waistcoat on page 92 of Mary Thomas's Knitting Book, would be *very* nice -- but I'd buy a woven brocade fabric and sew a bag -- woven fabric is what the handles were designed for, after all. On the other hand, you could knit a coarse lace -- say in #10 Cordonnet -- and mount it on silk twill, letting the edging on the lace fall at least an inch short of the casing for the handles. (Dharma had a nice black silk twill the last time I looked, but you'd probably want something a bit heavier.) -- Joy Beeson http://home.earthlink.net/~joybeeson/ http://home.earthlink.net/~dbeeson594/ROUGHSEW/ROUGH.HTM http://home.earthlink.net/~beeson_n3f/ http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather) west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where our first serious snow is on the ground. To stop mail temporarily mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: set nomail To restore send: set mail
