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[lindyflash]

Hello lovely knitting mavens. I am in need of some assistance. I have ljsearched for a striped tote pattern or FO, but I haven't seen anything that suits my needs. I am looking for a striped tote-bagish pattern that is appropriate/easy for a newish knitter. Not that it has to be extremely simple, but not too simple as to look boring

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[citabriag]

in the most recent Knit It mag I was flipping through last night they had a diaper bag pattern (take off the outside pockets) it could work for dance shoes with the flap. It used two colors and was quite cute.

[lindyflash]

Hmmm...I'll have to go to the bookstore! I generally use the internet since I don't know any actual knitters in my area, so I didn't think of magazines!! Thanks. (oh, no...know I'll have to subscribe to more magazines ;))

[citabriag]

My daughter and I were in the check out line at the super walmart and lucky for me the knitting mags were on my side on the stand so I sent her over so I could flip through. Some cute baby things, sweater, pants, shoes, socks. A mandrin collar sweater, felted purse, dog toy, and soem other cute stuff. I try to make sure there is at leasst three things i would make before i pay the $5 at the checkout. Friends having baby's won out with the baby items that weren't boring.

[lindyflash]

Sometimes I find that knitting mags have more advanced projects than I am up for. It is good to have imput from others.

[isitnotnifty]

You could always just knit a rectangle and then use a circular needle to pick up stitches around the edges and knit a tube to the desired length.

You said you wanted to stripe it so at that point just change yarns to make the striped the desired widths.

[lindyflash]

Do you cut the yarn when you switch? or leave it attached to the skein?

[isitnotnifty]

I usually break the yarn between stripes. If you don't to that you end up with hopeless tangles.

[prinnyc]

Can't help on the question - just posting for the Glenn Miller love!

[lindyflash]

Yeah..I love Glen and Duke! I teach lindyhop on fridays, so I listen to them during the week for inspiation.

BTW...icon love!

[fyrdrakken]

If you're willing to work without a net pattern, I made a randomly striped satchel with a cover flap that was loosely based on a Knitty pattern. (And by "loosely based," I mean that I looked at the Tasha pattern and used the idea of a long narrow strip that makes up the sides of the bag and a cabled handle, but instead of making separate front, back and bottom I just made one big rectangle for all three that was large enough to create a flap as well, and sewed it to the ends of the strap like in the Tasha pattern.)

[lindyflash]

Very cute. I love how it looks like the morning sky. I drive to the hospital every moring at 0545, and the sky over the sound look just like that! Beautiful! May I add it to my memories?

[fyrdrakken]

Thanks for getting that -- it was designed to look like a dawn sky! (I even put on some silver star-shaped beads up in the darker regions.) Memory away, though I don't know if you can put a gallery pic in memories -- if not, you can go for my finished project and/or separate components journal posts.