A Brilliant, Easy Way to Add a Liner to a Knit Purse

I love to knit bags, but one of the problems with them is that knitting has holes that things will naturally try to get through in order to escape your bag.

For this reason I love to felt knit bags, but you don’t always want a felted look. You also don’t always want to have to pull out the sewing machine to sew a liner to sew into your bag by hand.

The Underground Crafter has a great tutorial for making a lining for a knit or crocheted bag using duct tape. It’s actually pretty easy to do and you can make it any size or shape you want.

And while we’re on the subject of bags, check out this great roundup of adorable, tiny bag knitting patterns from In the Loop Knitting. So cute!

Do you knit bags? How do you line them?

[Photo via the Underground Crafter.]

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I don’t even know what to say about this amazing knitting pattern. The Bestiary Scarf from Monstra & Mirabilia is so full of details it’s a little intimidating to talk about.

It features, as the designer describes it, an “artistic encyclopaedia of Western mythical creatures.”

The pattern includes a dragon, harpy, Medusa, chimaera, centauress, phoneix, kraken, mermaid, sew serpent, cyclops, wyvern, Pegasus, amphiptere and amphibaena. (It’s a good thing there’s a photo of the proejct with everything labelled because I definitely didn’t know the names for everything.) It’s also designed like a landscape, with water and land creatures toward the bottom ends and sky creatures toward the top.

The dragon is at the center and is worked sideways so it will show as upright when you wear it.

The scarf is worked in double knitting, so the colorwork appears in the opposite colors on the other side.

It’s worked in light fingering weight yarn (on size 0 US or 2mm knitting needles) and the colorwork is shown in charts. The pattern also includes some video tutorials and written instructions to help you along. The designer says the pattern is for intermediate knitters, and “advanced beginners may succeed with patience and the help of the video tutorials.”

When I was an advanced beginner this kind of a pattern would have brought me to tears, but if you love a challenge, and a project that you’ll wear and get tons of astonished reactions every time, this is the project for you. And of course if you have a few double knitting projects under your belt and are comfortable reading charts, this project shouldn’t be hard, but that doesn’t mean it’s fast. But lots of great things take time, and that’s never stopped us before, right?

You can get a copy of this pattern from Monstra & Mirabilia on Ravelry.

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