May 5, 2005...11:55 am
Black Cherry Bag — I made it myself!
I call this The Black Cherry Bag, as I used Black Cherry Kool Aid to dye the off-white yarn. It’s a bulky weight yarn and I forget the brand now. It was just a generic 100% wool thick yarn that I picked so I could dye it. For info on how to dye wool yarn, w/ Kool Aid, visit Knitty.com, read it in SNB or Google it. I didn’t quite do it right so I didn’t get the color result I’d wanted. I misread the directions. You can see how Black Cherry would look at the Knitty article (and what I’d anticipated). However, I like the shade I got so I’m not complaining.
Here’s the pattern, roughly:
Black Cherry Bag
Use 100% wool, bulky (any type)
Size 17 needles
Cabled front:
CO18
Row 1: P6, K6, P6
Row 2: K6, P6, K6
Row 3: P6, K3, slip those 3 onto cable needle, K3. replace sts from cable needle onto right-hand needle behind the second set of 3 that you knit, P6. This creates the cable
Row 4: K6, P6, K6
Row 5: P6, K6, P6
Row 6: K6, P6, K6
Repeat 1-6 3 times or for however high you want the bag.
Back:
CO18
Work in Sts until the piece is the same height as the cabled front of the bag. If you don’t want this side of the bag to curl along the top, like Sts does, you could rib the last row or two. Mine is about 25 rows.
Handle:
CO2
K until the handle is as long as you want. An i-cord would be a great handle for this bag as well.
You might also want to stitch a fabric liner into this bag. I intend to use it for water bottles, sunglasses, etc and not for small objects (coins, lipstick) so it shouldn’t be a concern.
This is my first real bag. It started as a “learn to cable” experiment and I made it into a bag. My only other cabling experience was a small swatch on denim-colored aran yarn.
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