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Too cute! The Knitting Needle Knitting Bag

I'm beginning to think that I have a Serious Knitting Bag Habit, as I am getting dangerously close to having a different knitting bag for each UnFinished Object. This would not be a "Serious Knitting Bag Habit" if I only had one UFO (and thus only one knitting bag), or perhaps even a grand total of three UFOs, each with its own respective knitting bag. No. That wouldn't be a serious habit, that would be reasonable, and perhaps even sensible. (Three UFOs is a sensible number, right? Right. Wouldn't want to get BORED, now, would I? Of course not.) However, my UFO list is in the double digits.

Now you see my problem.

Consequently, I am continually in search of the Best Knitting Bag Ever. It's become like a personal quest: I stop and examine tote bags, zippered bags, and handbags with all the zeal of a Hollywood talent scout looking for the next Harrison Ford. I have had great success in the makeup bag section of department stores—all those little compartments, plus the vinyl linings, mean that not only do I know where my bamboo dpns are, I also know that they are not poking out, asking to be snapped in two.

However, there is one type of knitting bag that appeals to my sense of art and symmetry: a knitted knitting bag. I like the idea of a bag that by its very appearance lets people know that I am a knitter, a bag that speaks of my love of yarn and needles, and what's more, a bag that can actually carry my yarn and needles...very cool.

Imagine my delight when I found the little pink bag shown above. It's not just a knitted bag, nor is it just a knitted knitting bag. It's a knitted knitting bag with knitting needles used as part of the design. Actual knitting needles! Rather than binding off the front and back pieces, you put the live stitches on a knitting needle, scrunch them up a bit, and add a little superglue. Clever! Seam the sides and bottom, and ta-DA! It's a knitted knitting needle knitting bag. (And did I mention how easy it is? The hardest thing in that berry stitch pattern is a p3tog, the rest is all knits and purls.) Cute, clever, easy. Doesn't get much better than that, does it?

Once I saw the photo of that bag in Bag Style, I knew it was the perfect pattern to offer as a book excerpt on Knitting Daily this week. So, here you go: Pam Allen's Knitting Needle Knitting Bag.

What do you carry your knitting in? What does your dream knitting bag look like? Have you found something clever to carry your projects in? Let us know what your bag is!



Check back on Wednesday, when I'm going to talk about ways to line your knitted bags so all the pokey things we knitters love to carry around don't poke out so much.

Sandi Wiseheart is the editor of Knitting Daily.

What's on Sandi's needles? I'm finishing up a pair of Evelyn Clark's Waving Lace Socks for a friend whilst awaiting the fate of the yarn for Nicholas' cabled pullover.


Posted Sep 24 2007, 12:00 AM by KD Sandi
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KimJ wrote re: What's Your Knitting Bag?
on 9-24-2007 1:28 PM
Well, I'm sure I'm not alone in having many, many "knitting bags". I have one Namaste bag that's a needle case, I think, I also have a knitone/crochet2 bag that is a lovely lime green. Then I have countless canvas bags, leather bags, old purses, clear plastic, make-up bags, you name it. I've even used freezer ziplock bags to carry projects.

But lately, it's been the Namaste bag. I carry it the most often, I think in an attempt to get my money's worth out of it. It has to be the most money I've spent on any kind of bag, purses included. I just had to have it!
LeslieS wrote re: What's Your Knitting Bag?
on 9-24-2007 1:46 PM
Bags (and purses) are my favorite parts of knitting and crocheting. I have a bunch of bags: two or three cloth type that have lots of pockets for notions, an older one with a frame that stands by my chair, a newer one with a frame and zipper pockets that stands on the other side of my chair, and whatever my current purse happens to be is usually big enough to tuck in my crocheting or knitting.
MarthaS wrote re: What's Your Knitting Bag?
on 9-24-2007 2:07 PM
My wonderful husband bought me a beautiful Jordana Paige bag for my items. It has room for everything. I also have a couple of vintage cloth bag with wooden handles that I use when I do WWII Living History events.
RosieW wrote re: What's Your Knitting Bag?
on 9-24-2007 3:15 PM
I would love a Jordana Paige bag for my knitting, but as I'm a poor student I can only just justify buying the wool for my projects, let alone anything to put them in! I'm sorely tempted to knit this bag (despite my UFO count being in double digits too) but I would want a lining, and I don't sew, or have a sewing machine, so that may keep me safe.
SaraJ wrote re: What's Your Knitting Bag?
on 9-24-2007 3:33 PM
My most favorite bag for WIPS is a project bag that came free with an issue of Simply Knitting, this spring (British Mag). It stank to high heaven, though, of whatever it's made out of, but a while with a Bounce sheet did the trick, and time has taken care of the rest. It's a "box" bag with zipper, the perfect size for small to medium projects, and it actually fits alot more than one would think, currently all 9 balls of yarn for my Pacific Waves shawl.

I used a 40% coupon, or 50%, on an Eagle One Skein bag at a local craft store. My needle roll fits perfectly down one side, and a couple balls of yarn plus WIP on circulars firts nicely in the other side; this is my traveling project, and I'm excited because I just finished the second side of a pillow; now to seam them most of the way up, and FELT! This is my first felting, so it's exciting! I'll be making a second pillow, but since I'm using a different feltable yarn than the pattern called for, I want to see what proportions this felts down to. I'll be putting a little bead embroidered outline of a dolphin near the corner of one, and of a lighthouse near the corner of another (my hubby and I happen to love coordinating subjects, lol!). In Patons SWS blues/tans, these stripey pillows will go great in our seaside-themed living room.
SaraJ wrote re: What's Your Knitting Bag?
on 9-24-2007 3:34 PM
Woops, I got off track there, didn't I! I've got other things in everything from old backpacks of dd's to plastic grocery bags. I want to make the felted "box" type zippered bag from Knitting with Balls (although an inch or two longer), as that will be the same size and shape as the first bag I mentioned, which I love. How much cooler will it be to be using one I made myself! My local library has this book, so I'll be utilizing it that way, and was pleased to note the excellent how-to information on adding zippers. Of course, if I like enough projects in the book, on to my Amazon wish list it goes . . . .

I need to get a good smallish but big enough for a spindle and some roving, travel spinning bag, as I just got into THAT addiction, er, craft/art, this last week . . .! Silk-lined, for snag-free fibering.

Needle & notions storage is a WHOLE 'nother issue, especially since a dying aunt just gifted me with a variety of needles, notions, and vintage patterns & books. She is still with us, though she will be passing on in the fairly near future. These gifts will be treasured by me for my lifetime.
PapatyaC wrote re: What's Your Knitting Bag?
on 9-24-2007 3:52 PM
Sandi, as usual, you're so much fun to read!
Since you asked, my favorite knitting bag is the "Stirling" Tote in lime green. The dimensions are 14"h x 7"d x 14"w. It's got the perfect length straps; you can either carry it on your shoulder or in your hand. It's ALL LEATHER, except for the outer clear pouch, and the inner clear pouches. You can put your pattern on the outside. It's the best bag I've ever owned, after the Jordana Paige Messenger Bag, and I've had some (I own a yarn shop). Available are matching zippered accessories case with a clear front, zippered crochet case, 14" needle case, 10" needle case, and a new double point case. They're all lined with fabric, in good taste. I have all the goodies in the lime green.

LIME GREEN RULES!

Oops. The bag you wrote of is BEAUTIFUL. Thanks for drawing my attention to it! Oh, and Interweave RULES, too!
CatherineR wrote re: What's Your Knitting Bag?
on 9-24-2007 3:54 PM
hi, i find i have many ufo's and they all have their own calico eco bag or various colours of the green fold out eco bags you buy at the supermarket. No more needles falling out lol catherine australia
catmomnw wrote re: What's Your Knitting Bag?
on 9-24-2007 3:54 PM
Oooooh! What a topic. I have double digit UFO's too and I'm always looking for the right bag. I like a bag that keeps three projects together in one place. The best one I have right now is a homemade one by a coworker. She takes uphostery samples, puts pockets in the middle and sews them up. Alternates in the past have been a pink camoflage messenger bag from the local discount store. Actually, those are usually good finds. I just can't splurge the $80 on a Jordana Paige as much as I want to. But I'm a casual gal.
MaryH wrote re: What's Your Knitting Bag?
on 9-24-2007 4:01 PM
"Now you see my problem."
Problem? Is there a problem here? I think not! :)

I have about half a dozen bags...you need different bags depending on where you are taking your knitting. There is the heavy-duty "vacation bag", the smaller "soccer practice" or "doctor's office" bag to carry the small no-brainer project, there is the "just wait til the other knitters see THIS bag" bag, and "the bag with the old, original knitting store logo" bag that you can't bear to get rid of. And that's just to start!

Besides, I find that when I get too many bags going, half the fun is pulling them all out, emptying them on the floor, and reorganizing, sometimes even abandoning old projects and reallocating the yarn to new "wishful thinking" projects...with each project going into the right bag, of course!
AnneP wrote re: What's Your Knitting Bag?
on 9-24-2007 4:02 PM
Erm... I have a cotton bag - you know, one of the ones they hand out in places where they're trying to persuade you to stop using plastic carrier bags... and sometimes I just use a carrier bag anyway.

Shameful, very shameful!
JudyT wrote re: What's Your Knitting Bag?
on 9-24-2007 4:03 PM
I really love the KnowKnit bags. The small ones are great for socks, scarves, hats, baby things and the bigger ones can usually hold a sweater. I like them because they can hold the entire project plus the odds and ends (scissors, tape measure, stitch markers and photocopied directions in a plastic sleeve) in one place, PLUS it will fit over my arm and I can knit while in the car, plane, bus or other modes of transport. There is also. Right now, and for the past 12 months or so, they are my go-to bag of choice.
Jody wrote re: What's Your Knitting Bag?
on 9-24-2007 4:04 PM
I have several bags/baskets that I use for projects--2 favorites are a J. Jill tapestry carpet bag for big projects, and for small ones I just bought a little (10" high) Jansport backpack in a fun print. It's a great size for a small shawl or socks (the current occupant). It has a little zipper pocket in the front to keep stitch markers, highlighters, scissors, etc. from getting mixed up with the yarn. I don't actually own a bag made specifically for knitting.
Maxfun wrote re: What's Your Knitting Bag?
on 9-24-2007 4:05 PM
LOL! My friends sometimes call me "the bag lady" because I'm a sucker for bags of all types.

For knitting, I have a variety of bags, but my favorites tend to be from Lantern Moon. I have several different bags for toting projects as well as my wallet and other essential items with me.

Since I'm a big sock knitter, I have about half a dozen of Lantern Moon's small silk tafetta bags, which I love for socks in progress. They have nice loop handles on them that are great for holding the bag with yarn in it on my arm so I can stand in line, or whatever, and work on my SIP.
KarenC wrote re: What's Your Knitting Bag?
on 9-24-2007 4:07 PM
I'm the pleased-as-punch owner of a Jordana Paige satchel. It was a birthday gift to myself at the beginning of the year, and although I use it as my daily handbag, it's still in almost like-new condition.

I love it.

UFO's are organized in "other" bags - generally those marvelous, "who is going to use these after the actual event" bags that I get when I attend conferences.

All that said - I love this bag pattern. Maybe this will be my birthday gift to myself NEXT year. ;-)
DanicaK wrote re: What's Your Knitting Bag?
on 9-24-2007 4:09 PM
I have a vintage barkcloth knitting bag that I got off of eBay (for under $5 with shipping!). The colours brightened up with a soak in a bath of the MIRACLE product (OxyClean) so it looks fairly new. I've managed to snap the vintage thin plastic handles though :( maybe I can bribe my sewing mother to put some new ones on for me.
I also have a small project bag from piddleee.etsy.com in the goldfish fabric. It's such a great small project (like socks) bag. And it's got a grommett to put the yarn through for easy bus KIPing. I love it SO much.
Megan C wrote re: What's Your Knitting Bag?
on 9-24-2007 4:09 PM
I actually only have one knitted knitting bag ... so far. Number 2 is all sewn up and waiting to be felted. My UFOs tend to get piled on my desk or table, while my current project gets thrown into my knitting basket. And all to often, small projects get thrown into the second compartment of my backpack - needles and text books don't play well together!
RebeccaL wrote re: What's Your Knitting Bag?
on 9-24-2007 4:12 PM
Nah, nothing shameful about using an ordinary tote. I use my handbag for my most frequently carried projects, socks. Fits just fine. For bigger things I use a plastic grocery bag. Or a cotton duck bag I got from the local grocery store years ago. I'm not interested in a "knitting" bag. I don't carry that much stuff to knit with, just the WIP, maybe a tape measure, maybe a pattern. But if I do carry a pattern its copied onto an index card, or a photocopy from a book. I'd rather spend my money on my kids, or a vacation, or new shoes. I have more yarn than I'll ever knit, so I don't buy yarn either.

Rebecca in southeastern Utah
Ewedevil wrote re: What's Your Knitting Bag?
on 9-24-2007 4:15 PM
i'm a bore. i use your basic, run-of-the-mill canvas bags from walmart for $3. although, i actually did splurge several months ago and buy a misocrafty (dot com)-box type- sock project bags. i thought having a fun little sock wip carrier would make me want to make socks.... good thought, but it didn't work :-P
DeniseT wrote re: What's Your Knitting Bag?
on 9-24-2007 4:17 PM
I used (re-use) gift bags. I like the really pretty ones. I have a nice plastic one that I use for my socks in progress.

Don't feel bad about all of the WIPS/UFOs. I have double digits too.=)
MzMelly wrote re: What's Your Knitting Bag?
on 9-24-2007 4:20 PM
I love bags totes and baskets for my UFO's! Some I buy, some I make. I bought a Lantern Moon basket this summer that has become a repository for all those projects not-yet-started (NYS?), and I made a lined drawstring tote with interior pockets for my sock knitting. This is after I was in danger of snapping a double point using a purchased knitting pouch that was made out of nylon. I make my sock/hat knitting drawstring pouch out of upholstery fabric and line it with taffeta, which has held up very well! sorry for the ramble, but I am a bag junkie....
Melanie
AliciaS wrote re: What's Your Knitting Bag?
on 9-24-2007 4:23 PM
First fave: Lexie Barnes KNIT bag. It's my everyday work bag, can fit knitting or laptop depending on my activities! Lots of pockets and water/stain resistant.

Second bag: Custom purse from Mackerilla Design. Room for water bottles, phone, keys, wallet, and one small project. Also great for walking the dogs! She'll design to your specification.
MargaretR wrote re: What's Your Knitting Bag?
on 9-24-2007 4:23 PM
I do a lot of KIP, so I like the GoKnit bags. They are flat-bottomed, drawstring bags in rip-stop nylon, so my needles don't punch holes in them. They also have a snap together strap that can be used to secure the bag to my wrist (for knitting in the grocery line) or to armrests and the support for the tray tables on airplanes. There is also a snap together strap inside to use as a yarn guide (which makes knitting with the bag on my wrist much easier.) I just wish they had an inside pocket for accessories. I have to use a zip-lock bag for that.
SusanM wrote re: What's Your Knitting Bag?
on 9-24-2007 4:28 PM
I am a basketmaker as well as a spinner & knitter, so all my projects reside in black ash baskets. I have a small round knitting basket that hangs on my wrist with a cover that has a hole in the center so the yarn can feed out as I knit socks. I use a Canterbury Carrier (made on a Shaker mold) which I lined with mattress ticking for larger items like the sweater I am working on. I also have wool drying baskets up on feet for fleece & carded wool.
Lain wrote re: What's Your Knitting Bag?
on 9-24-2007 4:28 PM
Personally I just toss my knitting into my purse. If it's small, or if I have stitch markers or tapestry needles that I'm using with it, I put it in a Ziploc bag first. I realized a long time ago that I'm probably never going to find a bag that's exactly what I want, so I make do with what I have and can afford... which is things I already have. :)
Mary EllenT wrote re: What's Your Knitting Bag?
on 9-24-2007 4:30 PM
Needing a knitting bag I searched the Vera Bradley site and behold, before me on the screen was the perfect knitting bag- A Baby Bag. I figured if it can hold all things baby without tumbling out it could hold all things knitting and it does. All the yarn for a project,or 2..., needles, and all my survival tools in many pockets inside and out. Cost $92.00, worth every penny, and it is soft on the shoulder when transporting. Mary Ellen
KristinaB wrote re: What's Your Knitting Bag?
on 9-24-2007 4:36 PM
Oh My Gosh! I thought I was the only one with the knitting bag habit! I have several as well, one of my favorites for two-socks-at-once is actually a baby bag where I put the two center pull balls in the two pockets for bottles!
diherbert wrote re: What's Your Knitting Bag?
on 9-24-2007 4:36 PM
My favorite knitting bag is a big felted one I made from the pattern called "My Constant Companion" by Janet Scanlon. It's big and roomy, with a mosaic patterned pocket on one side. I need to figure out the best way to line it with pockets, so am glad you mentioned covering that in Knitting Daily.
Anne Kaelber wrote re: What's Your Knitting Bag?
on 9-24-2007 4:40 PM
Best bags ever: Blue Kitty designs at Etsy.com (search for user katiefleck). I've got all my socks-in-progress in these and so far, my ferrets can't get them open---though they *do* try to run off with the bags!

Worst bag ever: Jordana Paige Knitter's Messenger Bag. I'll sell it to someone, if they want it! The darn thing has a ripped pocket---and I barely used it!

I love "getting organized", so things like Knitpicks DP Needle Tubes are great for my sock bags. But when it's time to knit, I don't want too many pockets to hunt through. That's why I love Blue Kitty's bags the most---and they're reversible.

(Note: I'm just a happy, satisfied customer of BKD. I'm not affiliated with BKD, nor do I get paid to say nice things about BKD. *smile*)

I would love to find a knitting box that is ferret proof (ha!) that could sit by my chair in the living room and hold my current project(s). My husband made one I designed for my mother a few Christmases ago and I've been hinting for one for me ever since! *grin*
DoreenS wrote re: What's Your Knitting Bag?
on 9-24-2007 4:40 PM
This bag is just TOO cute! Time to go and start another new project!
JoyceR wrote re: What's Your Knitting Bag?
on 9-24-2007 4:43 PM
My absolute favorite bag is a Carpenter's tool bag that I bought at the local hardwear store. It has lots if slots and pockets........and it was CHEAP.
JoyceR wrote re: What's Your Knitting Bag?
on 9-24-2007 4:43 PM
My absolute favorite bag is a Carpenter's tool bag that I bought at the local hardwear store. It has lots if slots and pockets........and it was CHEAP.
JoyceR wrote re: What's Your Knitting Bag?
on 9-24-2007 4:43 PM
My absolute favorite bag is a Carpenter's tool bag that I bought at the local hardwear store. It has lots if slots and pockets........and it was CHEAP.
SarahA wrote re: What's Your Knitting Bag?
on 9-24-2007 4:46 PM
I tend to favour really big purses for my everyday life (everything-I'll-need-for-the-day sized) so when my knitting must travel, I throw it in for the ride.
Gisela wrote re: What's Your Knitting Bag?
on 9-24-2007 4:47 PM
I also feel well-portrayed in your description: sometimes my husband suspects that my knitting addiction is just an excuse to buy more bags. I love to store yarn and UFOs in baskets and have a selection of bags to carry current projects around. A Jordana Paige bag I got for Christmas, smaller handmade bags I bought on Etsy, and currently a strong gardener's tote bag for a very large and heavy project I am working on. It's got several pockets on the outside and is roomy as well, so it fits my current needs best.
Libraryhag wrote re: What's Your Knitting Bag?
on 9-24-2007 4:48 PM
I too would love to find the perfect bag. Right now, for small projects I am using a hair brush bag from Avon. It cost 4.99 and has a handle so you can knit with it on your wrist, a good size central pocket and a bunch of small pockets around the outside. Perfect or socks and scarves. For bigger things I use old tote bags that I picked up at various conventions, etc and yes, I often use the bag the yarn came in.
KirstenB wrote re: What's Your Knitting Bag?
on 9-24-2007 4:49 PM
Unlike most knitters, including my mother, I am fairly good at keeping myself limited to one or two projects at a time...so I usually only have one bag in use. The bag I prefer is a tote bag that my Grandfather bought me in Hawaii, it has one of those designs that changes in the sunlight, and the design is a sun itself.
Cagey44 wrote re: What's Your Knitting Bag?
on 9-24-2007 4:52 PM
I am a Bag lady too and tend to stuff my current projects into large ziplock bags that all go into various tote bags I have accumulated over the years. Not the best system I know. I usually carry 3 or 4 on going projects with me at a time and they cycle to the top depending on which one is in "time out" which is where "bad knitting" (translate as something just is not working out right) goes and I pull out the next project in the cycle. So I need Time Out Bags for Bad Knitting to sit and contemplate it's ways while I am working on it's bretheren :) By cycling these 3 or 4 projects I eventually finish them all usually at the same time, then I start all over. KGG
SarahM wrote re: What's Your Knitting Bag?
on 9-24-2007 4:54 PM
I'm a librarian, so canvas bags are on occupational hazard. I have at least a dozen, and each one has some sort of project in it most of the time.
MaryL wrote re: What's Your Knitting Bag?
on 9-24-2007 4:56 PM
I don't have a "knitting" bag, but I do have purse size projects. Larger projects stay at home.
MernaS wrote re: What's Your Knitting Bag?
on 9-24-2007 4:56 PM
Bag pig here too -- and even though I have lots of bags, my very favorite sock WIP bag was a freebie. I recycled a nice soft, but trong, plastic drawstring bag with an Apple logo on it. I like my Timbuktu messenger bag too, but had to cover the velcro closures with a small piece of knitting so they wouldn't snag.

I'm about to convert an aborted entrelac sweater to a bag, so am looking forward to your post on lining it. Knitting needles as handles -- great idea.
GemE wrote re: What's Your Knitting Bag?
on 9-24-2007 5:02 PM
I use many different bags, need to keep my interest going. I tend to carry with me a project until it is too big as a carry project. I also tend to have more than two projects in a bag at a time. This way I never get bored, unusally an easy one and an advanced (hard, have to think about)one. I also keep everything in zip lock 2 gal. bags, inside my larger tote bag to keep everything together. Needles yarn pattern, ect. in one zip lock.and a pencil case for the little things that you need to have with you.
The bag to knit in this newsletter would have to be alot bigger for me, but I think I may make it for my young niece (8) and her knitting! it is cute.
SusanV wrote re: What's Your Knitting Bag?
on 9-24-2007 5:02 PM
Wow, I am a low-life--did you mention wal-mart? My UFOs are in wal-mart PLASTIC bags. Which, like Lain, I shove into my purse or briefcase when I want that project. I guess I better get with it. I have this great entrelac bag I WANT to knit for my KIPs but first to finish those socks..that purse...that other bag...that baby blanket...oh yeah those socks I don't like...that cute mushroom hat, those slippers (oh yeah my son is probably too big for those now), and of course that great log-cabin quilt style scarf!
SandraKDavid wrote re: What's Your Knitting Bag?
on 9-24-2007 5:04 PM
I'm a bag geek, too. But I have to confess that most of my UFO's ride around in Hefty 2-gal zipper bags. Part of the reason is that I must have a zip closing container if I leave knitting out and accessible, or Terry kitty will pull the balls of yarn out at night and carry them around the house. I generally carry everything else I need in locally made quilt fabric "purses" with lots of pockets inside and out.
DenetM wrote re: What's Your Knitting Bag?
on 9-24-2007 5:05 PM
That bag is really cute!

My bag? A Penguin book bag. It works. But in a mess.

My dream bag?
1.Approximately the same size as my current bag.
2. Knitted. (Felted cables!)
3. Inside a sturdy fabric with a couple of ribbons running across one side to keep patterns/magazines/books from flopping over.
4. Pockets of various sizes for all the other odds and ends.
JannyW wrote re: What's Your Knitting Bag?
on 9-24-2007 5:08 PM
OMG that is the CUTEST bag ever! I must make it immediately!! (Can you tell that I too have a serious bag issue?)

Jan in SC
Laura BethR wrote re: What's Your Knitting Bag?
on 9-24-2007 5:11 PM
Hey guys! I, like a few, use only one type of bag--a ziploc freezer bag!! I am, however, like many of the rest of you, in that each project has its own ziploc freezer bag! They get stuffed into my bookbag if I'm taking them to school, or carried with me in my purse, another bag, or my hand if I'm going anywhere else.
DebbyS wrote re: What's Your Knitting Bag?
on 9-24-2007 5:12 PM
Wonderful. Perfect little bag. LOVE the pink too. I'm sure I have some pink yarn in my stash. And this will be just the thing for those old broken tip wood needles that I can now sand off and use for the tops. Yeah! I am making this bag this week.
JennieV wrote re: What's Your Knitting Bag?
on 9-24-2007 5:13 PM
I do like to buy nice yarn, good needles, quality accessories, but for my project bags, I tend to just use cloth sacks or those clear zippered pouches that come with sheets and the like. Not really a 'project bag' kinda gal, I guess!
MichelleD wrote re: What's Your Knitting Bag?
on 9-24-2007 5:17 PM
I made some posts last year in my now-nearly-dead blog about knitting bags, which I too am obsessed with.
http://www.airraidsirens.com/blog/archive/2006/09/my_favorite_thi.html
and I have also written a warning about the perils of knitting accoutrementitis:
http://www.airraidsirens.com/blog/archive/2006/02/accoutrementiti.html
beware!
TerriR wrote re: What's Your Knitting Bag?
on 9-24-2007 5:23 PM
What I would like to know is what other knitters carry their sock projects around in? I put them in plastic bags but the needles stick out after like 5 minutes..
CaitlinM wrote re: What's Your Knitting Bag?
on 9-24-2007 5:24 PM
At the moment, I have yet to find the perfect knitting bag. I keep flipping back and forth between having a bag that has enough compartments to hold all the little bits and bobs one needs when you knit, but is too small to actually hold a knitting project, and a bag that is large enough for the number of projects I like to carry around with me (usually 2-5) but is SO large that all of the little things--tape measures, patterns, stitch markers, scissors--get lost in it! Or, the bag gets too heavy to carry comfortably (which is my fault, not the bags fault).

-Caitlin
BonnieM wrote re: What's Your Knitting Bag?
on 9-24-2007 5:26 PM
I have several sizes of clear plastic zip totes. Each has a simple $.01 pencil box with nearly identical basic supplies and its own pair of cute magnifying spectacles. I can add exotics for the current project like a cable needle or the dpn to finish a hat.

Why the clear bags? With my eyesight, I can see far away fine or close-up with the glasses. Groping around in the dark knitting bag was rough so the clear ones made it easy to spot my targets.

Besides, it sparks interest when I carry my knitting but am not actually KIP.
TheresaL wrote re: What's Your Knitting Bag?
on 9-24-2007 5:36 PM
I love this bag and what a great idea for a present for my knitting friend....Of course, with most knitting projects I would put my own spin on it and probaby do I-cord handles, make it bigger so I can felt it! that would help with the lining issue! Off to spin some wool for this! Theresa in MY
LoriV wrote re: What's Your Knitting Bag?
on 9-24-2007 5:37 PM
Ah well, Sandi, since you asked: my UFOs and WIPs (are they really one and the same?) live in those clever little heavy guage, clear zippered bags that drapery and linens are sold in. I've picked up about 10 (mmmm, ok maybe a few more than 10) from my local linen shop, who were happy to save a few for me.
I love the heavy plastic (keeps the pokies inside) and being clear makes finding those misplaced stitch markers easy.
I also use little paper disks with holes in them (available at stationary supply stores) to mark the needle size when I remove the Denise or Harmony tips from a UFO for use on another WIP. A girl's gotta have her tools, right?!
I love, love, love and so appreciate all your huge efforts to give us your daily post.
Kyra wrote re: What's Your Knitting Bag?
on 9-24-2007 5:38 PM
My favorite knitting tote is my Vera Bradley "Vera" bag. There are SIX interior pockets! Perfect to stash needles in...Plus it has a very roomy interior with a toggle closure(no zipper, no snaggy)and one exterior pocket.
MarleneR wrote re: What's Your Knitting Bag?
on 9-24-2007 5:44 PM
I've tried bags of all sorts and always come back to the same basic type: Zippered bags made of heavy, clear plastic --- the kind of bags that other things came in. Large projects go in the zippered bags that sheets came in. My sock project has found THE perfect bag. A small, rectangular, zipped, clear rectangle with a handle. A tooth whitening kit came in that one.

I'm so garsh darn sophisticated hey?
Holly wrote re: What's Your Knitting Bag?
on 9-24-2007 5:45 PM
I had the same problem. Too many projects, not enough bags. I found two ways to combat the problem. For small projects, or large ones before the get big, the small bags that you get from some store that will stand open in their own and have the woven handles. The size is perfect and you can always find your stuff. The second will work for any project if you have a large enough size. I love to reuse the plastic "bags" that comforters, sheets, curtain, whatever, as long as it has a zipper. They are clear, come in various sizes, water resistant, and free with purchase. ;)