Another Pretty Pattern for a Knit Purse
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[edit] Another Pretty Pattern for a Knit Purse.
From Exercises in Knitting by Cornelia Mee. Original text at Project Gutenberg.
The completed purse, 2.5 inches by 4 inches
Close-up of fabric and beads
On the needles.
For this sample, I used 60 stitches on US #4 knitting needles. I used fingering weight cotton yarn and seed beads. I used 2 beads for each even-row yarn-over. At the top of the purse, I made eyelets by knitting 1 row, knitting an eyelet row (K2tog, YO across the row, keeping the first and last stitch in stockinette), then knitting another row before binding off. I then threaded an I-cord through the eyelets.
[edit] Original Pattern
Pins No. 16. Cast on 76 stitches, knit 1 plain stitch at each edge, knit 2 together, make 1, knit 1, seam 1. Four skeins of silk are required, and passing 3 beads at a time makes it very handsome: 3 bunches of No. 6 beads, the beads are passed in every alternate row at the made stitch; every row is the same.
[edit] Updated Version
Pre-string the beads onto the yarn.
Cast on a multiple of 4 stitches plus 2.
Odd rows: K1 (*K1, K2tog, YO, P1), repeat from * to last stitch, K1
Even rows: K1 (*K1, K2tog, move 3 beads up to the end of the working yarn, YO and slide beads over, P1), repeat from * to last stitch, K1.
The even and odd rows are the same knitting pattern, but the beads are incorporated into the yarn-over (YO) only on the even rows.
Experiment with the size and number of beads to get the look you want.
[edit] Abbreviations
K1 - knit 1 stitch
P1 - purl 1 stitch
K2tog - knit 2 stitches together
YO - yarn over
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