Re: [lace-chat] Re: ideal knitting bag
Hi Jean Your knitting bag sounds as if it would be ideal for my mother as she is always loosing her ball of wool. It would be nice to make her one for Christmas so I would be grateful if you could send me a diagram. Happy Lacemaking Sue (in cold, but snow free Southampton ) - Original Message - From: Jean Leader [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lace-chat@arachne.com Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2005 8:28 PM Subject: [lace-chat] Re: ideal knitting bag My knitting bag was made for me by a friend of my mother's back in the 1950s. I don't do a lot of knitting (probably why it's lasted so well) but have been using it recently so got round to taking some measurements. It's a sort of combined bag and apron, and it's not that easy to explain what to do so if anyone wants a diagram please contact me privately. Take a length of fabric approx 17 by 35 and at one end fold over first 0.25, then 3 and stitch 2 seams across (one about 2.5, the other about 3 from fold) to make a channel for a drawstring. Measure along about 21, fold over and stitch 2 more seams (again about 2.5 and 3 from fold) to make a channel for a drawstring. Fold so that the two channels are opposite each other and stitch side seams (do not stitch over channel openings). You will be left with an end of fabric about 5 long - gather this into a waistband and attach apron ties. Make fabric drawstrings (or use cord) and insert through channel - best to use two so you can pull up from both sides. Put knitting in bag, fold apron part over, pull drawstrings tight and off you go. When you're ready to knit, open bag, tie apron strings round waist, take out knitting - the yarn stays in the bag so doesn't roll around the floor. My current project is a lacy shawl with 1-ply cobweb wool which I could finish by the end of the month if I had nothing else to do! Jean in Glasgow where we had snow yesterday but rain today To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.13.8/183 - Release Date: 25/11/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.13.10/188 - Release Date: 29/11/2005 To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: ideal knitting bag
My knitting bag was made for me by a friend of my mother's back in the 1950s. I don't do a lot of knitting (probably why it's lasted so well) but have been using it recently so got round to taking some measurements. It's a sort of combined bag and apron, and it's not that easy to explain what to do so if anyone wants a diagram please contact me privately. Take a length of fabric approx 17 by 35 and at one end fold over first 0.25, then 3 and stitch 2 seams across (one about 2.5, the other about 3 from fold) to make a channel for a drawstring. Measure along about 21, fold over and stitch 2 more seams (again about 2.5 and 3 from fold) to make a channel for a drawstring. Fold so that the two channels are opposite each other and stitch side seams (do not stitch over channel openings). You will be left with an end of fabric about 5 long - gather this into a waistband and attach apron ties. Make fabric drawstrings (or use cord) and insert through channel - best to use two so you can pull up from both sides. Put knitting in bag, fold apron part over, pull drawstrings tight and off you go. When you're ready to knit, open bag, tie apron strings round waist, take out knitting - the yarn stays in the bag so doesn't roll around the floor. My current project is a lacy shawl with 1-ply cobweb wool which I could finish by the end of the month if I had nothing else to do! Jean in Glasgow where we had snow yesterday but rain today To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Re: ideal knitting bag
maureen harvey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What on earth is a fanny pack ? it's a bum bag, you have it on a strap round your waist jenny barron Scotland where we are expecting blizzards today To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Re: ideal knitting bag
At 11:07 PM 11/23/05 -, maureen harvey wrote: What on earth is a fanny pack ? A bum bag. (Sorry; I forgot this is an international forum.) A purse on a belt, the pouch usually worn in back -- but worn in front in crowded places. A large one is a good day pack. (The large ones *have* to be worn in back.) -- Joy To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: ideal knitting bag
At 03:54 PM 11/22/05 -0800, Bev Walker wrote: Does anyone own the ideal knitting bag? I'm excluding the fancy one made by the backpack people - that's too over the top. Mine is exceedingly simple -- I carry my socks-in-progress wrapped in two 22 furoshikis. (Think of a furoshiki as a large handkerchief or small cover cloth.) Size isn't critical -- 22 was as large as I could get two of from 45 fabric. When I want to carry more than will fit into my purse, I use a black denim tote originally meant as a grocery bag. The wire panniers on my bike were sized to fit a paper grocery bag; I thought that if I had a denim tote the size and shape of a grocery bag, I could fill it in the store, then set it down in the pannier without re-packing anything. Alas, when packed, the bag bulges and is no longer the same size and shape as the inside of the pannier! And if I set it down in the pannier and then pack it, intending to be able to pull everything out at once, some items poke out between the wires. A paper bag inside a plastic bag worked very well -- the paper bag was stiff, and the plastic bag provided handles -- until paper bags went out of style and plastic bags got smaller. But the denim tote is great as a work bag. The handles go all the way to the bottom, the better to support heavy canned goods, and that makes four re-inforced places where I can hang scissors etc. on safety pins. (Knitters' coil-less safety pins, or split rings threaded into the coils of ordinary pins.) I usually attach one part of a quick-release key ring to the pin, and the other part to the tool. A feature that you might consider is a detachable shoulder strap, so that it can be converted to a handbag instead of having to transfer everything. My shoulder-bag purse recently wore out, and I've been carrying a handbag with no virtues beyond I can get everything (i.e., a sock-in-progress) into it. It's fine for shopping, but I've been taking the dumb thing to meetings because it's more trouble to move everything into a fanny pack than to walk a mile carrying a handbag. I'm plotting a new bag based on my clothespin bag, which hangs over a shoulder Sam Browne style, so that I can wear it instead of carrying it. I've really *got* to get around to finding a suitable fabric. Pity I didn't choose black instead of red when I bought two yards of ramie just because I hadn't seen any for sale before. (And I haven't seen any since.) -- Joy Beeson http://home.earthlink.net/~joybeeson/ http://home.earthlink.net/~dbeeson594/ROUGHSEW/ROUGH.HTM http://home.earthlink.net/~beeson_n3f/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where we are getting our second snowfall and our first significant accumulation. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Re: ideal knitting bag
What on earth is a fanny pack ? Sue M Harvey Norfolk UK Where we have forecast for snow tommorrow - Original Message - From: Joy Beeson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lace-chat@arachne.com Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 4:04 PM Subject: [lace-chat] Re: ideal knitting bag At 03:54 PM 11/22/05 -0800, Bev Walker wrote: Does anyone own the ideal knitting bag? I'm excluding the fancy one made by the backpack people - that's too over the top. Mine is exceedingly simple -- I carry my socks-in-progress wrapped in two 22 furoshikis. (Think of a furoshiki as a large handkerchief or small cover cloth.) Size isn't critical -- 22 was as large as I could get two of from 45 fabric. When I want to carry more than will fit into my purse, I use a black denim tote originally meant as a grocery bag. The wire panniers on my bike were sized to fit a paper grocery bag; I thought that if I had a denim tote the size and shape of a grocery bag, I could fill it in the store, then set it down in the pannier without re-packing anything. Alas, when packed, the bag bulges and is no longer the same size and shape as the inside of the pannier! And if I set it down in the pannier and then pack it, intending to be able to pull everything out at once, some items poke out between the wires. A paper bag inside a plastic bag worked very well -- the paper bag was stiff, and the plastic bag provided handles -- until paper bags went out of style and plastic bags got smaller. But the denim tote is great as a work bag. The handles go all the way to the bottom, the better to support heavy canned goods, and that makes four re-inforced places where I can hang scissors etc. on safety pins. (Knitters' coil-less safety pins, or split rings threaded into the coils of ordinary pins.) I usually attach one part of a quick-release key ring to the pin, and the other part to the tool. A feature that you might consider is a detachable shoulder strap, so that it can be converted to a handbag instead of having to transfer everything. My shoulder-bag purse recently wore out, and I've been carrying a handbag with no virtues beyond I can get everything (i.e., a sock-in-progress) into it. It's fine for shopping, but I've been taking the dumb thing to meetings because it's more trouble to move everything into a fanny pack than to walk a mile carrying a handbag. I'm plotting a new bag based on my clothespin bag, which hangs over a shoulder Sam Browne style, so that I can wear it instead of carrying it. I've really *got* to get around to finding a suitable fabric. Pity I didn't choose black instead of red when I bought two yards of ramie just because I hadn't seen any for sale before. (And I haven't seen any since.) -- Joy Beeson http://home.earthlink.net/~joybeeson/ http://home.earthlink.net/~dbeeson594/ROUGHSEW/ROUGH.HTM http://home.earthlink.net/~beeson_n3f/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where we are getting our second snowfall and our first significant accumulation. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: ideal knitting bag
On Nov 23, 2005, at 18:07, Sue Harvey in Norfolk, UK wrote: What on earth is a fanny pack ? And here I thought that fanny was the *Brit* euphemism for bum (US: butt)... :) A fanny pack is a smallish, shaped, pouch, usually made of the light-weight, rip-stop nylon. It'll, often (though not always), have a roof closure (a flap that goes over the top opening and part-ways down the pouch itself), which will be kept down either by its big overlap, or else by a Velcro spot. The simpler models don't have the extra flap and close via a top zipper. The pouch it threaded - via loops, on the side opposite to the opening - onto a belt (some fanny packs come with a belt of its own), and the belt is cinched around your waist. The fanny pack rides - comfortably, because of its shape - on your back, below the waistline, covering some part of what's known as the small of your back - the flat part below the waist, limited by: waistline (on top), the rounded cheeks of your butt (at the bottom) and the reach of the flat plates of your hips (side to side). Think of it as reverse kangaroo pouch g... It's used - extensively - by many bike (pedalled, not motor) riders, because it frees both arms and shoulders, doesn't mess with the balance (the way a backpack might), yet allows one to carry the - most basic - necessities in comfort (not everyone has panniers or even a single basket attached to their bikes), the back of a bike rider being bent/exposed anyway. I've always thought that fanny packs are a modern extension of the craftstmen's tool-belts... -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
