✨ The Story Behind Your Next Knit

“This bag is your canvas to play with color and texture; switch up a pared-back palette for a patchwork look, and try dense textures and cables to minimize fabric stretch.”

The Market Bag is that perfect ‘throw it all in’ bag. Constructed almost entirely from squares, it’s the perfect canvas for you to make it your own - stick to a refined color palette or go scrappy with a patchwork look. For a firm fabric, dense textures or cables would be perfect - but if you prefer to try more open stitch patterns then you could always add a lining!

🧶 Quick Highlights:

• Techniques: Long-tail cast on, knit, purl, bind off, i-cord, crochet slip stitch (optional crochet joining method), mattress stitch, grafting, braiding
• Construction: You’ll knit 13 squares and 2 corner triangles, then join them flat with a crochet or knit join. The piece is folded into a bag shape and the final seams are joined. It’s finished with i-cord edging and braided handles.
• Make It Your Own: Use dense textures or cables for a firm bag, or an open stitch with a lining. A formula is included if your square has a different stitch and row count.
• Includes: Video tutorials for seaming and i-cord edging
• Yarn Weight: Aran Weight

📐 Approximate Measurements:

One size.

• Width: 16.5” 41.5 cm
• Height: 12.5” 31.5 cm to 16.5” 41.5 cm

🧶 Suggested Yarn:

• Recommended Yarn: Paintbox Yarns Wool Mix Aran (50% wool, 50% acrylic; 197 yds 180 m / 100 g)
• Colorway A: 806 Granite Grey: 1 ball; 2.25 oz 60 g / 118 yds 108 m
• Colorway B: 846 Dusty Lilac: 1 ball; 2.5 oz 70 g / 138 yds 126 m
• Colorway C: 823 Mustard Yellow: 1 ball; 2.5 oz 70 g / 138 yds 126 m
• Colorway D: 824 Pistachio Green: 1 ball; 1.5 oz 40 g / 79 yds 72 m
• Colorway E: 831 Seafoam Blue: 1 ball; 2.0 oz 55 g / 108 yds 99 m
• Approx. 0.5 oz 16 g per square and 0.25 oz 8 g per triangle.
• Or a similar aran weight yarn. Check your stash first!

🥢 Needles:

• US 6 4 mm, or size needed to obtain gauge

✂️ Notions:

• Tapestry needle
• US G-6 4 mm crochet hook (optional, for the crochet joining method)

📏 Gauge:

• 4” 10 cm = 17.5 sts and 27 rows in stockinette after blocking. You’ll want a fairly firm fabric for this bag, so it has structure and resilience. The squares must measure 6” 15 cm.

📝 Pattern Notes & Support:

• This pattern is part of The Purl-Pal Project, a first-of-its-kind collaborative knitting collection from Pattern Design Runway, Season 1. Every pattern in the collection is a blank canvas built from 6” × 6” squares, so no two finished projects will look exactly alike.
• This collection was tech edited by Nicole Hawkesford and Galaxy Nova Salo.
• A big thank you to the 17 test knitters who cast on early and helped make these patterns shine! Their names are in the ebook credits.
• Questions about the pattern? Please contact the designer at nicole@acertainstyle.co.uk.

© Copyright & Usage:

• This pattern is for personal, non-commercial use only. You may not distribute, sell, or reproduce this pattern in whole or in part.
• Rights to this pattern return to the designer in May 2027.

📌 Ready to Cast On?

Grab your needles and yarn, and let’s make something that’s all yours! Want to knit along with other Purl-Pal makers? Join the free January 2027 knit-along waitlist: Join the waitlist.