Saturday, August 30, 2014

The end of my affair with construction twine

Just finished the second -- and last -- part of a housewarming gift for friends who moved into together.

The pattern is the Ilene Market Bag by Hannah Ingalls, free to download from her blog, iknityouknot. It's a stretchy, single strap market bag that is knit from the bottom up.  While the bottom is knit flat, stitches are picked up from around the sides of the base and it is knit in a circle up to the top of the bag before going back to flat knitting for the strap.