Casting on 320 stitches with beads on every stitch takes a very long time, but it was worth it. Even having to do it twice because for the first time ever I twisted the row in joining it was worth it.

I stopped the gold after seven repeats of the pattern because I thought it was long enough. I did’t want the leaves to look dwarfed by the size of the fruit. Since I wanted the green mostly to be the bottom of the bag, I stopped it after three repeats, but I think I should have cut it off a little sooner.

At the end of the pattern, I’m assuming that the P6 A repeated all around should be P5 A to make it work out with the right number of stitches. It seemed to work out alright.

The only thing that annoys me about this is that after blocking, the leaves ended up being very floppy. This wasn’t unexpected, but I don’t like it. I tried to remedy it by running the cords through the tips of some of the leaves, but that didn’t really help. It needed to be blocked to loosen up the fruit, but the leaves didn’t come out of it so well. I might try starching them to see whether that works.

It’s lined with a 12”x6” scrap of gold silk taffeta, and the finished measurements of the bag are about 3.25” in diameter and 4” long, not counting the leaves.