Rainbow Bucket Bag by Claire Fairall Designs

Rainbow Bucket Bag

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Knitting
October 2012
DK (11 wpi) ?
12 stitches and 16 rows = 4 inches
US 11 - 8.0 mm
640 - 686 yards (585 - 627 m)
English
Discontinued. This digital pattern is no longer available online.

This knit and felt rainbow bucket bag is knitted on 2 needles in stocking stitch, and uses simple increases through out for the shaping.
The base is a single colour and the stripes create a rainbow which grows out into the frill.

The base requires 35g (70m 77yds) of black.
and a further 7x 45g ( 90m 98yds) in each of red, orange,yellow, green blue, light purple and dark purple felting wool.

You could of course create you own colour pallet or even knit it in a single colour.

This small bag is 18cm (7” ) high x 20cm( 8”) wide excluding the frill

The 3 page pattern gives full detailed instructions for knitting , making up and felting and shaping the bag.

This felt bag would make an ideal project bag to tote your latest knitting in progress with you.

Knitted using 1 strand of DK / 8ply pure wool – Handwash yarn.
Recommended yarn Double Knit or Worsted weight felting wool.
To obtain a thick felt with no visible stitches ensure your yarn is 100%
pure handwash only wool
Beware of “Superwash” it will not felt!!