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This is my seventh design in the Dumplin’ bag series. This will match my Churchill Avenue Hat and Churchill Avenue Mittens.

Twinkle lights and holiday nights, that’s what makes the season bright!

This is a companion project for the Churchill Avenue Hat and Mittens. Designed as a childhood memory of snow streets with holiday lights as I grew up on a street in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, where entire neighborhoods were decorated for the month of December for families to bundle up with hot chocolate in the car and slowly drive around Reindeer Lane, Lollipop Lane, Santa Claus Court and Candy Cane Lane. Car headlights were turned off; windows were cracked and one home played holiday music on an old crackly speaker.

IMPORTANT NOTE: This is a checklist pattern, each round is written out for easier tracking and checkboxes are placed for marking off upon completion– however, this makes the pattern significantly longer – check to see the pages you want to print before starting.

PATTERN NOTES: This bag is knit first as a flat bottom rectangle in garter stitch and then picked up around to knit the sides to the drawstring double knit top casing. I highly recommend matching the weight of your yarn to the pattern yarn weight that is recommended. (For example: this pattern recommends worsted weight 125 grams = 275 yards. Therefore, a 100 gram skein would need to equal 220 yards. Using a skein with significantly fewer or more yards will result in a different product.)

SAMPLE 1, medium, was knit in Must Stash yarns Sweater Weather worsted in colors It’s Only Natural and Rainbow weighing 110 grams using 242 yds. (Bottom, knit in Only Natural, weighed 25 grams using 55 yds. Icord drawstrings weighed 11 grams each.)

SAMPLE 2, large, was knit in Must Stash yarns Sweater Weather worsted in colors It’s Only Natural and Noel weighing 153 grams using 421 yds. (Bottom, knit in Noel, weighed 30 grams using 66 yds which means there was not enough leftover to make the icord drawstrings in the colorway.)

Felted purse inserts may be purchased on Amazon. Link is in the pattern.

Tech edit and graphic design by Corrina Ferguson. Photography by Cori Eichelberger. Test knitters were Christine Cardinal and Helen Woodcock.

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