Market bags

Recipient: My household
Designer: Jodie Danenberg
Pattern: Saturday Market Bag
Source: MagKnits
Due: Whenever
Colours: Variegated blue/white
Yarn: Zellers cotton, worsted weight
WIP status: 4/6 pattern repeats done on first panel of bag #1

2007-Sep-26

For a while I've wanted to make mesh market bags so that we could 'go green' with our groceries and stop bringing home plastic bags. Ravelry's pattern browser allowed me to narrow it down and decide upon Jodie Danenberg's Saturday Market Bag pattern from MagKnits. I'm using some worsted weight cotton I bought from Zellers who-knows-how-many years ago that was originally going to be turned into diaper covers (I gave up on that). Right now, bag #1 looks like this:

Like, totally top

I tried starting this top with the Nobile yarn, and did some calculations once I came to the end of the ball. I figured out that the XS size would take probably about 10 balls, which works out to $129.50 before tax and I really can't justify that. I know people are free to make yarn substitutions, but I still think I should make it vaguely reasonable to use the original yarn (for myself, too!), so I'm going to look for something else at the store today.