{"id":52,"date":"2007-10-04T09:39:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-04T09:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/?p=52"},"modified":"2007-10-04T09:39:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-04T09:39:00","slug":"making-a-bag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/?p=52","title":{"rendered":"Making a bag."},"content":{"rendered":"

I have had 3 cakes of yarn sitting here for time immemorial, and I want to make them up into a bag and felt it.<\/p>\n

I want the bag to look like this:<\/p>\n

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I’m figuring out a pattern that uses pie-wedging<\/a> to get the semi-circle shape. I will slip a stitch at the end of every other row, then pick these up and knit them as part of a single, circular piece that will be both the strap and the base of the bag. I will knit the strap and bottom of the bag in the round, as a single section of garter-stitch. I want to avoid sewing anything because firstly, I hate sewing, and secondly, I think that if everything is knit together, it makes for industrial strength felt when you then go on to felt it. My bags need to be industrially strong as I have a tendency to fill them to capacity. My brother once took a bag from me and immediately exclaimed ‘have you got lead in this?’ My plan works beautifully, except that I have no idea how to graft the second semicircle onto the bottom\/strap band. Any ideas?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have had 3 cakes of yarn sitting here for time immemorial, and I want to make them up into a bag and felt it. I want the bag to look like this: I’m figuring out a pattern that uses pie-wedging to get the semi-circle shape. I will slip a stitch at the end of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pmise-Q","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}