This one is in the experimental stage. My sons own and operate a comics and gaming store in Joplin, Missouri named Hurley’s Heroes, and they are both certified judges for the game Magic The Gathering. I thought they might like to have custom dice bags.

I initially tried to add the logo using intarsia, but messing with all the bobbins took forever. I only made a front. I took photos of the logo with and without the black edging between the colors. The official store logo does have the black, and a consultation with my oldest son tells me I should have the border because it makes the colored parts stand out better.

In my second attempt, I knit the bag as a tube, using 64 stitches. The top few rows are garter, then there is a row of eyelets made with k2tog, YO, k2tog, etc.

I planned to knit the tube to the desired length, bind it off, embroider the logo using duplicate stitch, and seam the bottom together, then add a crocheted or i-cord drawstring in one of the logo colors.

I ended up sewing the first logo patch on the front of the bag instead of embroidering.

No, no, and no. New lessons learned:

1. I don’t have the skills to work duplicate stitch on a piece that has a gauge of 32 stitches and 48 rows in 4”.

2. If I did have those skills, it would be much easier to work duplicate stitch on any gauge if the guideline rows and columns were added during the process of knitting the base piece, instead of trying to sew them in after the fact.

3. Adding the logo as a patch allows me to hide all the horrible yarn ends from the intarsia.

4. Just because the patch has a small gauge doesn’t mean the bag itself must. I can probably go up a needle size to a 4 or even to a 6 without making the bag mesh too loose to do its job.

This bag is too long. My youngest son instructed me to make it large enough to hold a Magic card without bending it. The finished dimensions of this one are 4 1/2” wide by 7 1/2” long. It can hold a 4” x 6” index card, or a large-screen cell phone. The next one will be shorter, and there will be more height above the eyelets to give a nice pleated top above the cord when cinched. The tie is a simple crochet chain made with an F hook.