decide to wish you Thanks. Eugene 
No DPNs? Easy Peasy!
I started this project yesterday, and finished it tonight. It was so incredibly easy, if I had another skein of this yarn I’d cast-on right away for another one. It’s like sock knitting. You just knit, and knit, and knit, a few places where you have to think about what you’re doing, then knit, knit, and knit some more. This project actually took place of the kerchief that I started for stress knitting. I didn’t have quite enough for the kerchief I wanted, so dice bag it is!
When I started this I was out in town with only a few supplies. I had just ripped out the kerchief and only had a set of really short circulars to begin with. I knew I wanted to make a pouch, and that I didn’t want to be sewing the bottom closed or the side up. However, I didn’t have any DPNs in a good size to start a circle for a flat bottom. That’s where I got the idea to knit it flat, and it worked out as well as I’d hoped.
I started with the very bottom of the pouch, cast-on 8 stitches (2 are seam stitches on each end, so they don’t really count). Then I just made sure to increase by 6 stitches every row, back and forth. It was kind of awkward at first, but it would have been just as awkward with DPNs I think. Then when the flat circle was done and I had enough stitches that I could fit them around the circulars, I connected the two ends and began knitting in the round. I had a hole at the bottom that I was later able to seam up, et voila!
I used a little scrap from the other skein of bamboo I had to do the ties, and I’m considering using the rest to do a little embroidery on the side. I love it!
Entry: Not Gone Yet!
Author: cade
Time: December 2, 2008, 5:26 pm
Comment: yeah now you need to knit a baby kilt…it would be adorable
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