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This design was inspired by the Knitted Wings Suki felt-along.
Materials:
Three (or less/more) colors Feltable Wool.
Size US 11 circular needles.
Pattern:
1) Cast on 160 stitches with color 1
2) Join and knit in the round for about 5 inches, striping the colors as you like.
3) Work two inches in the color you want behind the skulls, to start the background for the skull
area.
4) Skull Patterning: The Skull Chart is 9 stitches wide. Work one skull, knit
11 stitches, repeat to end.
Continue through skull patterning, knit an inch of background color, and continue to knit in stripes until your ready
to do the bottom of the bag. I didn't measure how long mine was at this point, but see the CD for scale.
(note: I carried the yarn not in use across the back of the work, then cut the floats
and retied them before felting. I did not weave in the ends, and now I have a tote with a very 'textural' interior.
I think carrying the unused yarn across the back of the work is a good idea, but was worried that the floats would shrink
more than the knit fabric itself, thereby pulling the fabric in some unsightly way. Since I don't care what
the inside of the bag looks like, this was a good method for me.)
5) Mitered bottom
Divide stitches to make a rectangle:
Knit 50, place marker, knit 30, place marker, knit 50, place marker, knit 30 place marker.
Now, continue knitting in the round, decreasing two stitches at each corner every other round like this:
Round One: in color 1 *Knit to 2 stitches before marker, ssk. Pass marker to right needle. K2tog.
Repeat from * to end of round.
Round Two: in color 2 knit around.
You don't have to cut the yarn after each round, carry it up from the row below.
Finishing the bottom:
Once there are no more stitches in the "Side" areas,
bind the "front" and "back" stitches together in a 3-needle bind off.
Handles
Knit whatever kind of handles you like and sew them on.
I knit tubes about 18 inches long on the Knit Magic.
Draw String: Also knit on the Knit Magic, but you can substite lengths of I-cord.
Shrink, Dry, and GO!
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