Bird Bag

Knitting
November 2011
yarn held together
DK
+ DK
= Aran (8 wpi) ?
17 stitches and 21 rows = 4 inches
in stranded pattern
US 8 - 5.0 mm
4.0 mm (G)
771 yards (705 m)
English Japanese Universal
This pattern is available for free: 25-26.pdf

The PDF of the Japanese version is available on Pierrot Yarn’s Japanese-language website at the link shown above. (An archived copy of the Japanese-language information page is also available here.)

The English-language version is no longer available directly from Pierrot Yarns, but is available on the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine HERE.

Both versions are fully charted using standard Japanese knitting and/or crochet symbols.

Tools/Materials:

  • Japanese size 10 knitting needles (5.1mm)
  • Japanese size 7/0 crochet hook (4.0mm)
  • 10g (31.3m) Fine Merino, color 214
  • 145g (454.3m) Fine Merino, color 223
  • 70g (219.3m) Fine Merino, color 229

Note: entire bag worked with yarn held doubled.