More bags
November 25th, 2004 at 9:22 am (storage)
I find myself constantly moving my knitting projects from one bag to the other. Part of the problem is that I don’t have enough bags! I make these kind loose sack things out of slippery fabric with a drawstring closure. The slippery fabric lets the yarn slide in and out easily without causing additional friction. It also means the bag is a lifeless lump:
It just lays there, and you really have to dig to see what’s in it. I have two of these. This is the larger of the two. The other one is gold and is perfect for holding a pair of socks in progress. (Actually I have three. Another one that is burgandy, much smaller and I made with little pockets inside to hold a ball of cascade fixation each for working on socks two at a time with circs. I no longer knit socks that way and the bag is a tad bit too small overall.)
Bag version #2 uses some batting to stiffen up the sides slightly, and it can stand up even when opened:
You can see the little plastic clampy thing that helps keep the bag closed. So far I really really like this style of bag. It currently contains three projects. Cross stitch scarf (seen peeking out the top here), Katie’s Opal socks, and my new Cashmere-y scarf which I haven’t started yet. It will only contain two once I start Cashmere-y scarf and have finished Cross stitch scarf.
The only thing which would make this bag better would be some sort of handle to carry it around with when it’s closed.
The handles I was going to put on it looked stupid, so I never sewed them down. I have a few ideas and I might have to make Bag #3.
Oh, and I have a seeminly infinite supply of this shiny fabric. I have no idea what it’s made of. It is washable, but it looses some of it’s sheen when you machine wash it. I originally bought it to make a really mod 80’s jacket in the late 80’s. I found the fabric at SAS fabrics in Phoenix AZ. It was a place that had huge bins of fabric (think dumpster diving through fabric) and you paid by the pound. It was an awesome store to shop at. I think I paid maybe $15 total for four different colors of fabric. I used up all the gold & blue, I have about a yard of this blue-ish/green-ish color left and 2+ yards of the burgandy.
