Apple-Bottom Market Bag KAL April 5-15

Hi all!

Just want to check in and make sure of two things:

1. Everyone got their bags finished, or if you've paused your bag it isn't because you're stuck.

1. 2. Did I get everyone's prizes to them? I'd feel terrible if I overlooked sending something you were supposed to get! Please, please tell me if I missed anything!

Hope everyone's having a great week!

Looks like I’ll be trying this again when I can eventually get more yarn. My daughter wants me to knit one for her now! 😉

Love the colors Lou! 💙💚🤍

Realized I didn’t post a pic of my

finished bag. So just posting for the record.

Happy Friday! Anyone want to play guess how many full skeins fit in my finished market bag pictured here?

🤣🤣💕💋👍

That’s amazing 👍

Finished this pumpkin and filled it with so many skeins of yarn with room to spare! I think i need to take this bag apple picking someday. 👍🏻

Thanks! I’d like to try out the Lost Woods Beanie.

I’d love this Cardi https://wyldeandplumb.wixsite.com/wyldeandplumb/crochet-patterns?lightbox=dataItem-k4mufy1g5 And this blanket, please 💕 https://wyldeandplumb.wixsite.com/wyldeandplumb/crochet-patterns?lightbox=dataItem-k4mufy1g7 Thank you 💕❣️

Maria, you are so kind ( and fun!!)

Hi Maria,

i have choices👍 for the card: Knitters Astrology

for the pattern: Autumn Lattice Kitchen set

for the book marker: Be quiet I’m counting

I‘m so excited, thank you so very much😘

They're on the way to you @carlap2!

Ichthys Prayer Shawl

Edina Hat

University Rah-Rah Blanket

I would like the following patterns: Ichthus Prayer Shawl, Edina hat, and the University Rah-Rah Blanket. Thank you!

Thank you!

Ok it’s clear I win the prize for most questions asked 😂... so I’m now on to the linen Stitch Pattern on the handle. Just did a YouTube tutorial 😅. It says I need an odd number of stitches. So I have 56 stitches . If I bind one off at start of the first row I’ll have an odd number 55 👍🏼which sounds good. I’m wondering what happens on the next row, as I will bind off another stitch at the start of that row and then I’ll have 54 stitches which is even? 🤔.

Thanks so much Maria! This is my first ever KAL and I’ve really enjoyed it. Your market bag is such a great project made even more fun working alongside & encouraging one another along the way. 🧶😊

I hate it when things end...

But this is only the end of a project! We still have each other! ;)

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 2020: LAST DAY AND PRIZES!!!

Everyone's bags look so great! I hope you're happy with how they turned out, and that they give you many years of wonderful service. I LOVE bags. I used to make fun of my mother for buying so many purses. But I get it now, Mom. I get it.

Spinning the Wheel Decide wheel today was SO MUCH FUN! I kept track every day of who posted that day, and then I entered your name in the Wheel every day that you posted. So the wheel had like 40 entries in it! It was really cool! Thank you for your fabulous participation!

Now, to string it out as long as possible...

3rd Place, and winner of 1 FREE pattern from Wylde & Plumb is...

@LB !!! Please take a look at the CROCHET Patterns or KNIT Patterns menu above and pick any pattern you'd like to have!

2nd Place, and winner of 2 FREE patterns from Wylde & Plumb is...

@nicoleb !!! Ditto above, but pick two!

1st Place, and winner of 3 FREE patterns from Wylde & Plumb is...

@carlap2 !!! (Carla, are there any patterns you want but don't have yet? 😆)

And finally, the GRAND PRIZE winner of the KAL, who wins a Magnetic Bookmark, a Greeting Card, and a Free Pattern is...

@visgirl !!!

Take a look in the PAPER Brilliants menu at the bookmarks and greeting cards, @visgirl, then hop over and pick out a pattern from KNIT Patterns or CROCHET Patterns.

This has been a really fun KAL, despite a bumpy start for a few people. Carla, thanks for hanging around and cheerleading, too! I hope everyone will be able to join in on May 4 for the next KAL/CAL, making Mesh Produce Bags. And as always, this thread will remain open if anyone needs ongoing help (or just a place to socialize!), and we can always chat with each other via the little round (brown) chat box in the lower right corner.

Thanks again, everyone!

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I feel like it looks like a vegetable 😊

Yay! Finished the body of the bag. Tomorrow I start the band & then on to the straps! 😊

Everyones bags look really nice! Good job everyone!

I would like to join the mesh produce bag kal! What material would we need? Thanks!

All of your bags look fantastic!

I'm sorry I was AWOL yesterday. I hit the ground running when I got up and then never got a break. I ended the day sewing some face masks for neighbors who requested them.

Tomorrow is the last day of the KAL! Wow, that's gone quickly! I've been keeping track of who's posting each day, and I'll load up all your entries into Wheel Decide and choose first, second, third, and grand prize winners tomorrow!

The next project coming up is making Mesh Produce Bags (May 4-8), and that is both a KAL and a CAL! You can do it whether you knit or crochet! I started a new KAL/CAL project page in the Project-A-Longs forum (back one arrow from here). Hope you'll pop in and comment to let us know you can join!

Hope everyone's staying safe, warm, and healthy! Can't wait to see all the updated photos of your bags!

BTW, I have four of these (3 knit and 1 crochet) and I still want more. Will be

making at least one more during our KAL/CAL!

Looking good Nicole & Lauren! I’ve been knitting away but I also hav more to go until I get to the band.

Looks great! I am almost to 11 inches so a few more until I can start the top section...

Maria, I’d like “40 Graces for Forgiveness“ along with Drawn please. Thank you so much!🌷🌼

Good morning. Hope everyone had a peaceful & enjoyable Easter Sunday. So just to update. I’m still working on the body of the bag. It’s definitely coming along but I am behind schedule...hoping to finish the bag section today. 👍🏼 I had to get more yarn 🧶 & I’m not a fast knitter. 😊.

Happy Easter, everyone!

HAPPY EASTER!

In our house the Easter bunny (fortunately) woke up early, came to the kitchen and poured a cup of coffee, then realized she never did the Easter baskets last night! Mission successfully completed before the first kiddo got up! They're 12, 14, and 16, though. Might be time to tell them who the Easter Bunny is? (Ha ha!)

Hope everyone is having a blessed Easter weekend. Since no one is going anywhere, if you have any questions about your bags, I'll be here all day! (All week. All month. Oh dear...)

Wait! I got the bindoff part now. I repeat the same thing on the other side & stitch them together on top?

I think I have a brain fart at the shaping of the handle. I just don’t get it 🙈 I’ll retry tomorrow 😃

Just saw your reply about using a double strand. Do you think that’s the better way to go?

Actually the gray is 3 ply. And I think is pretty similar thickness to the new yarn. The white I’ve been using is 4 ply & looks a bit thicker since the plys are unraveling. 😏 I’m leaning towards continuing with the new yarn & enjoying the different textures? 🤔

Ok, new quick question! I fortuitously ended up getting some more cotton yarn today from a neighbor...yay!! Question is can I carry on & knit with the new yarn which is 2 ply? I’ve been knitting with a 4ply cotton/linen mix. Sending photos of the labels for comparison & how it knits up. It actually seems to have much nicer stitch definition. Please let me know your thoughts. Thanks 🙏

HAPPY SATURDAY!

How is everyone feeling about their progress? Do you think you'll be able to finish "on time"? It's no big deal if not, just wondering if I set the pacing up well or not.

I love seeing your bags growing! I love farmers markets, and I so hope we'll be able to have them this year. I am working on putting in more of a back-yard garden than I've done in the past, hoping to grow more of my own veggies this year. I suspect the squirrels will be my biggest nemesis.

The picture to the right is a coaster I just made. Hideous, isn't it? But it's made with the very first wool I ever spun myself!

My father is a woodworker, and several years ago he got it into his head to make a spinning wheel. I knew where this would end up.

He entered the spinning wheel into an art show and won! But he wasn't able to sell it for any decent price-- people can buy assembly-line manufactured pieces for so much cheaper than handmade (as we well know) and he didn't want to sell it cheaply. After a couple of years of me insisting I did not want to start a new hobby, the spinning wheel ended up in my car on the way home from a visit to my parents.

It has been quite the learning curve, but I've finally got the mechanism figured out! Now I'm working on making better quality fiber. But Dad's birthday is next month, and I decided to make him something out of that very first bobbin-full of "yarn".

Now Dad's talking about making a full-size loom. "Wouldn't you like to weave your own cloth?" he keeps asking me.

My father needs his energies redirected. 😂

Thanks for the feedback Nicole & Lauren. I tried and could pull it apart and break the yarn easily. So I’ll scratch that Idea. Looks like I Will hav to make it a bit shorter or hav it be a bit more colorful than I’d ideally like. 🌈 😉

Ladies, quick question...for my bag I’m using what I have here, which is mostly a roughly 50:50 cotton/linen blend #4. It’s going down pretty fast. I also hav an end of a 70%silk with 30% baby llama, also #4. Would this be as strong as the cotton/linen blend ? And do you think it would work to mix that in with the cotton/linen for this project? I don’t hav enough of any one color so I’ll be using different colors anyway.

Thanks for your thoughts 🌷

👍🏼 yes, definitely is motivating when others are working alongside you.

Hi, I’m Lauren, a late join thanks to the invite from Lou, one of my dearest knitting friends! But I started in yesterday with a very sturdy cotton... I’ve wrestled through the really tight parts. Now I’m calling it my seashell bag because every time I put it down it curls up into a different seashell shape. Maybe someday I’ll use it to carry some nice big seashells I want to shake out...

FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 2020

I think just Nic & Lou are left working on project bags, so I'm not going to post daily updates with the daily goal. We'll just keep working and posting more casually.

@visgirl We're so sorry about your family's loss. Our hearts are sad for you all.

@carlap2 I'm sorry that the bag pattern was so troublesome, but sometimes you just have to cut your losses, right? I'm sure that yarn will work up into something else lovely!

Hope that you're looking forward to a somewhat relaxing weekend!

Hi everyone, I had to give up too. My brother-in-law died this morning. These last few days have been very difficult for us. Sorry!

I ripped mine out. The stitches were going to the left and to the right. I really don't know what I did. I will be a cheerleader for everyone.

I think it would be very helpful to have a stitch count on Round 1 of the bag side. It would have really helped me to have a stitch count.

I decided to keep going and make a smaller bag.

THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 2020: BREAK DAY!

Today is a break and/or catch-up day. I think all your bags are looking great! Even if your counts are off or you're not sure you're doing it exactly right, this is a very forgiving pattern. It will still look like mesh, and you'll still have a market bag when you're done!

Hope everyone's doing well!

Not much progress today. I was making a mistake in my knitting and stitches were increasing. Good job there’s

a catch up day tomorrow! 😅

Looking good Nicole! 👍🏼

I think I will need to rip my bag out, someway my stitch count is down to 175. I have 4 sections with 41, 43, 45, and 46 stitches. The straps will not fit.

i give up!

I didn’t much accomplished today. I changed to size 7 needles because my stitches were so small.

Rest well Jasmine!

I’m on round 1 with the cable needle. I’m fighting it, why is it so hard? My stitches have never been so tight 🤦‍♀️