Knitter’s Rulers and Free Bag Patterns!

KaratStix over at Etsy graciously sent some items over for me to try out. She sent a Needle Gauge, a 2″ square stitch and row gauge and a fun key ring. These are all made from earth friendly bamboo, and just as cute as can be! These ones are decorated with sheep but there are other designs as well. I was skeptical at first at the accuracy of the rulers, but they are pretty much spot on. They deserve and will keep a well earned spot in my Denise Fabric Needle Case, well, the key chain rides along on the outside, just because it’s so cute! And now she’s offering FREE shipping on yarn bobbins when purchasing more than one item! These are the best stocking stuffers ever for the knitters on your list!

Looking for more patterns? Check these market bag patterns out on Etsy.

Now, where to keep all of these fun gadgets? How about some free bag patterns?

I found this one, a string market bag by LionBrand, here:

http://cache.lionbrand.com/patterns/BK4K-0702003.html

This next one is from The Daily Knitter, I present Emma:

http://www.dailyknitter.com/emma.html

And this little cutie, also from The Daily Knitter is a perfect size lunch bag: Leah: http://www.dailyknitter.com/leah.html

There’s a lot to like about the Eloise Bandana from Katryn Seeburger. This cute little colorwork triangle can be worked as a bandana or kerchief size or a bigger shawlette.

It’s worked in two colors of fingering weight yarn so you can use whatever yarn you have in your stash and just make it as big as you can (since it is worked from the bottom up).

You can see the two sizes from the photo, and also two colorwork options: strawberries and lily of the valley.

But that’s not all the choices you have. In fact, there are 34 different charts you can choose from to knit onto your project. Some of the options include happy faces, a lobster, a pumpkin, a snail and a butterfly. There are cherries, peaches, tomatoes and radishes.

There’s even a blank square you can use to draw your own little design if you want to use something else. Or keep it blank and make it a plain checkerboard design.

And while both of these shawls use the same icons throughout, you could also use different designs throughout if you want. Say a fall version with a bat, pumpkin, leaf and acorn, or a summer beach theme with sailboat, fish, lobster and a bird? I keep suggesting four different icons because the larger size has four rows of squares, but the smaller has three, so you could do stripes of the same icon or alternate a couple of different ones, whatever you like.

Look through the finished projects on the Ravelry project page to see lots of different options, from rows to individual icons. There are also some projects that are smaller than the suggested size to make a smaller bandana. You could also keep going a make a bigger shawl working increases in the same way as you have been going.

Check out all the details and grab a copy of the pattern on Ravelry.

[Photo: Katryn Seeburger]

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