Mixing it with the Caron regular yarn just adds more of a tweed texture. I really didn’t feel like doing any ripping out! I liked the Homespun for this because it’s thick and fills in the holes, and its curly texture helps hide any stitch mistakes. I made the front 6 1/4 inches (~16cm.) high, but I decided this was too tall because I wanted a pretty small purse, so I wound up folding the top of the front piece over later and sewing it down. I used 1 strand of each of the above yarns, this made a rectangle ~9 1/4 inches wide (~23.5 cm.). To start the purse: I made the front piece first, using 24 pegs and working back and forth, all e-wrap, (e-wrap is the stitch the Knifty Knitter teaches you how to do in the instructions it comes with for making the hat, which is a “twisted knit” stitch). Here’s how I made the purse above: I did what I said above, but instead of one long piece for sides and bottom, I included the handle too and made a ring, out of one long i-cord. (This may come out looking different, I haven’t tried that way.) You will find that seams on the edges on the drawing above help define the purse shape, that’s why I started with doing it that way – but as long as you make a sack, it’s not wrong. Make a round tube, then you only need to knit a flat rectangle for the bottom and sew the bottom on. Connecting in the round: If you make a tube instead of a front, back and sides – this would be another way. Make your own handle, or use a store bought one. You can just make a front and back and forget about the sides, and seam it around the edges on the inside. You can really make a purse any old way you want, you don’t have to do it like the photo above. The yarn I used is one strand of Caron One Pounder, color deep violet and one strand of Lionbrand Homespun, color Gothic. (An inner zipper bag on a purse is much like cloth zipper cases that children use to carry school supplies.) You will also need the Knifty Knitter red loom, (the second smallest in the set of 4 round, with 31 pegs.) It doesn’t matter what loom you use, but the smaller looms have pegs that are closer together, so you will have less space between your stitches if you use the smallest one you can. You can also do a search for something like”how to make a zipper case school supplies”. I have written some instructions for how to make a zipper bag in this post: Tunisian Crochet Entrelac Bag. Your zipper bag may show through, depending on yarn and loom choice, so you may have to be careful with color choice for the cloth. (Though, you may need to hand sew the zipper bag in at least partially, it’s difficult to get it sewn in real close on the machine.) Knifty Knitter stitches tend to have lots of space between them, so you may lose items out of your purse if you don’t make a cloth inner bag. And if you’re impatient like me, a sewing machine to at least knock out a large part of the sewing. For that you’ll need some cloth, thread, needle, and a zipper of the appropriate length. What you’ll need: After you make this purse on the Knifty Knitter, you will probably also want a zipper bag to sew into the inside.
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