Because these bags are unstructured, they must be worn like garments - they come alive on the body. The soft drape of each bag makes it relaxed enough to travel with you on any adventure, from the urban landscape, to a long anticipated evening out, to a spontaneous jaunt for a long weekend.
Evening Adventure Bag
12” (30.5cm) wide across the front/back at bag bottom
3” (7.6cm) deep across the front/back at bag bottom
6 1/2” (16.5cm) tall
Urban Adventure Bag
15” (38cm) wide across the front/back at bag bottom
4” (10.15cm) deep across the front/back at bag bottom
9” (22.85cm) tall
Long Weekend Adventure Bag
20” wide across the front/back at bag bottom
6” deep across the front/back at bag bottom
14” tall
Intrepid Easy: Requires knowledge of casting on, knitting and purling, picking up stitches in knitted fabric, increasing and decreasing, knitting in the round on circular needles, and some hand-sewing during the finishing process.
Pre-felted guage: 12 stitches and 16 rounds = 4" (10cm) in St st with a double-strand of worsted weight yarn.
Evening Adventure Bag
654 yds (600m) Plum
150 yds (140m) Sage
Urban Adventure Bag
1,090 yds (996m) Brown
Long Weekend
1953 yds (1785m) Autumn Gold
Size 7 (4.5mm) double-pointed needles for the evening bag
Size 11 (8mm) 24" (60m), 32" (80cm) or 40" (100cm) circular needles
Size 11 (8mm) double-pointed needles
Sewing needle
Nylon beading thread
2 1 3/4" (4.5cm) purse rings
Noni 30" (76cm) custom YKK zipper with 2 bottom stops
All of the bags shown were created using Stonehedge Fiber Mill Shepherd's Wool. Evening Adventure is pictured in Plum with Sage vine and leaves. Urban Adventure is pictured in Brown. Long Weekend is pictured in Autumn Gold.
First Edition Patterns
Bag Body: When making the double stitches for the bag handle, put the stitches on a holder on the outside of the bag.
First through Fourth Edition Patterns
Fifth line in the Bag Body section: *K1, put 1 on a holder,* K4 (6, 11).
Abbreviation: m1 -- make one increase
Fifth Edition
Yardage information has been added to the pattern.
Bags and embellishments are made with a double-strand of worsted weight yarn. Our skein is ~210 yds.
9 skeins/1,890 yds in dark goldenrod
2 or 3 1.75-2"/4.5cm purse rings
30"/75cm zipper with two sliders
First Edition Patterns
Bag Body: When making the double stitches for the bag handle, put the stitches on a holder on the outside of the bag.
Knitted Shoulder Strap: The pattern mistakenly says to 'Work as an 8-stitch I-cord. . .' when it should say 'Work as a 6-stitch I-cord.'
First through Fourth Edition Patterns
Fifth line in the Bag Body section: *K1, put 1 on a holder,* K4 (6, 11). Abbreviation: m1 -- make one increase
Fifth Edition
Yardage information has been added to the pattern.
Bags and embellishments are made with a double-strand of worsted weight yarn. Our skein is ~210 yds.
5 skeins/1,050 yds in dark straw brown
20"/50 cm zipper with two sliders
2 1.75"/4.5 cm purse rings
First Edition Patterns
The recommended yarn color for the optional vine embellishment is Cascade 220 Col. 9448. Bag Body: When making the double stitches for the bag handle, put the stitches on a holder on the outside of the bag.
Knitted Shoulder Strap: The pattern mistakenly says to 'Work as an 8-stitch I-cord. . .' when it should say 'Work as a 6-stitch I-cord.'
First through Fourth Edition Patterns
Abbreviation: m1 -- make one increase
Optional Vine Embellishment, First Half of Leaf: Work for 1.5", then form a leaf as follows: Put 1 st on a holder and use the other 2 sts to begin the leaf by Kf&b in each stitch (4sts). Purl all stitches.
Second Half of Leaf: The 2nd row should read "the second and subsequent odd rows".
The following text has been amended to clarify that you must join the one stitch on the holder with the two live stitches in order to work the 3 st I-cord: "Together with the one stitch that has been on the holder, work the 3 sts as follows: turn, knit, and continue the 3-stitch I-cord for another 1.5" before making another leaf."
Fifth Edition
Yardage information has been added to the pattern.
Bags and embellishments are made with a double-strand of worsted weight yarn. Our skein is ~210 yds.
3 skeins/630 yds in darkest aubergine
Optional vine embellishment: 1 skein/210 yds in mossy green
2 1.75"/4.5 cm purse rings
16"/40 cm zipper with two sliders