Latitude & Longitude Purse & Backpack by Betty Monroe

Latitude & Longitude Purse & Backpack

Knitting
May 2004
yarn held together
Bulky
+ Bulky
= Bulky (7 wpi) ?
13 stitches and 20 rows = 4 inches
in stockinette stitch
US 9 - 5.5 mm
325 - 825 yards (297 - 754 m)
purse and backpack
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The backpack is made with the yarn held doubled and requires the larger amount of yardage.

Gauge is slightly larger: 12 st/18 rows=4” (10 cm.)

“I-cords and tucks converge to form grids on the backpack and drawstring purse. Either project would make a perfect primer for flat and circular knitting, picking up stitches, working tucks, knitting stitches together from two needles, and making I-cord”