FO: Mitered Dice Bag
Oct. 19th, 2009 02:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
houseelfMy sister is a gamer, and over the summer she asked me to make her a new dice bag. The yarn she picked, Knitpicks Essential Kettle Dyed, is a sock yarn. I, not in possession of circs in an appropriate size and not a fan of casting onto DPNs, decided to come up with something that would avoid the issue entirely.
Mitered squares are fun because they look so much more complicated than they really are. Little mitered squares are great, because it takes you no time at all to finish one. And a bag is an excellent thing to make out of mitered squares, because you can knot and trim the ends rather than weaving them in. I really like this pattern.
I didn't take photos of the bag before I gave it to her, mainly because I was finishing it on the last night of her visit this summer. She works for a graphic design firm, so she recently took the bag into work and made use of the lightbox setup they have for taking photos of things. Result: photos that are about ten times clearer than I usually manage.
Click to embiggen.
An action shot. The bag is about 6" square when it's open, so it holds many more dice than are pictured here.
And two shots of it all closed up. I like the way it naturally wants to close when you cinch the drawstring - the shape of the miters makes it want to fold nicely. The closure is a black ribbon with a drawstring thingie on it.
The Ravelry page for this project is here.
Mitered squares are fun because they look so much more complicated than they really are. Little mitered squares are great, because it takes you no time at all to finish one. And a bag is an excellent thing to make out of mitered squares, because you can knot and trim the ends rather than weaving them in. I really like this pattern.
I didn't take photos of the bag before I gave it to her, mainly because I was finishing it on the last night of her visit this summer. She works for a graphic design firm, so she recently took the bag into work and made use of the lightbox setup they have for taking photos of things. Result: photos that are about ten times clearer than I usually manage.
Click to embiggen.
An action shot. The bag is about 6" square when it's open, so it holds many more dice than are pictured here.
And two shots of it all closed up. I like the way it naturally wants to close when you cinch the drawstring - the shape of the miters makes it want to fold nicely. The closure is a black ribbon with a drawstring thingie on it.
The Ravelry page for this project is here.