This Spiral Bag is worked in a strip but this is joined as you knit. The pattern has clear diagrams to show you how.

The bag can be worked in any yarn because you knit to measurement not stitch count. You can work it in multi-coloured yarn, colour change yarn, Magic Ball Yarns made from your stash, or in stripes.

Finished size - circumference is 60cm (24in) approx, height from centre of base is 30cm (12in).

Stitches used:
Cast on, knit, purl, picking up stitches (diagram), increasing - knit into front and back of stitch (diagram).

Materials
Any yarn you choose - striped bag worked in DK hemp yarn, multicoloured bag worked in a Magic Ball Yarn made up of odds and ends of stash yarn from my stash. I tied buttons onto the knots for decoration.
Needles.
Handles - multi-coloured bag has ribbon handles. Hemp bag has knitted I-cord handles.

Pattern
Full written instructions with stitch diagrams. Instructions for I-cord handles and how-to's for attaching ready-made handles or using ribbon. Yarn amounts and needle sizes for 4ply up to chunky yarns.
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