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Buttoned I-Cord Pouch
PATTERN DETAILS
RELEASE DATE: 1990, Revised
July 2001
DESCRIPTION: This
is a tiny pouch with a flap and button – good for a few coins or small
pieces of jewelry. This pouch was designed as a project to help you
experience the versatility of I-cord. I-cord is also called idiot cord
(because it’s so easy to make) and the "unattached" version
looks the same as the spool knitting you may have learned as a child. The
photographs at the bottom of the page show both the front and back of
the pouch.
SIZE: The size
of the pouch varies with the yarn and needle size you select. The sample
in the photograph is knitted of cotton yarn on size 5 needles and is about
4 inches square.
SKILL REQUIRED:
Intermediate
— you must be able to knit circularly on double point needles.
MATERIALS:
- YARN: Use
any weight yarn of any fiber. NOTE: for beginners, yarn with two or
more plies is recommended (because it’s too easy to unintentionally
split single-ply yarns) The yardage needed varies, with more yards
required with thicker yarns. For example, I used 35 yards for the
sample pouches worked on size 5 needles. In all cases, a partial skein
is usually sufficient. The sample is shown in a basic cotton yarn (so
that you can easily see the stitches), but it is wonderful in luxury
yarns such as rayon, "eyelash", mercerized cotton, ribbon,
etc. Variegated yarns are especially fun to use, because of the way
the colors show with the several different directions of knitting in
this pouch.
- NEEDLES: Double point needles in a
size appropriate to the size of the yarn you have selected, although
you might want to try a size smaller than you would normally use so
that the pouch is firmly knitted.
- MISCELLANEOUS:
- Decorative button
- End of Round marker
- Darning needle to weave in ends.
GAUGE:
Not critical, but pick a needle that makes a firm stockinette stitch fabric
– firmer than you might like in a sweater. Usually that means using needles
a size or two smaller than you might use for a sweater made of the same
yarn.
front of pouch
back of pouch
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