From the pattern description: The magical D4 Bag of Dice Holding … holds a large number of dice, and opens wide to allow you to see the ones you want. This artifact isn’t to be found in any treasure chest or dragon’s cave. You have to use arcane arts — including intarsia in the round, short row shaping, and felting — to call it forth. It is simpler than it sounds, but you don’t have to tell the rest of your gaming party that!

From the designer: The pattern includes instructions for intarsia in the round, short row shaping, three needle bind-off, felting, and I-cord, plus it has links to tutorials for some of them. There is a chart for the intarsia motifs, and a diagram to help get the pieces put together correctly. There are also suggestions for customizing the bag. The bag knits up quickly, with inexpensive materials you may already have in your stash. A truly magical project!

From lindseymac: Even though this project took a variety of pretty complex techniques, the instructions were clear enough to make it a great beginner project for each of these different techniques.

MATERIALS

• KnitPicks Wool of the Andes; MC: 2 skeins (roughly 205yds/190m needed), CC: 1 skein (roughly 15yds/14m needed) (Or other feltable worsted weight wool)

• Size 10 (6mm) needles

• Lily Sugar’n Cream to match MC; 1 skein (roughly 40yds/36m needed) (Or other worsted weight cotton or non-felting wool)

• Size 7 (4.5mm) needles

• Tapestry needle or crochet hook to weave in ends

• Stitch markers (optional)

• 3 yarn bobbins (homemade are fine)