The perfect knitting bag

On May 15, 8:18 pm, Katherine wrote:
On May 15, 6:24 pm, Padishar Creel wrote:





On May 15, 9:44 am, Katherine wrote:

On May 15, 2:25 am, Padishar Creel wrote:

I am on a search for the perfect knitting/crochet bag. Below are the
specifications I would love to have in a new bag. Anybody seen such a
bag?

1) Waterproof (I live in the Pacific NW, USA)
2) NO zippers (I cut more yarn with zippers than I do with scissors)
3) NO Velcro
4) Stands up on its own when placed on floor
5) A bike messenger bag style for easy carry
6) Compartments to store projects in process
7) Storage for needles
8) Clear gadget bag for small items (no zippers here as well)
9) Comes in manly colors such as camouflage or blue, brown etc.
10) Large enough to store a afghan in process

Well that is the basics for my perfect bag. Perhaps you can add some
your favorite features as well, eh?

Well, you don't want much, do you? g How about a fishing bag?
All I would add is a separate compartment for patterns, as they
get wrinkled with I put them with the project-in-progress.

Higs,
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Fishing Bag, great idea and I am a fly fisherman and didn't think of
it at all! Here is what I found and I think it may be perfect...Now
all I need is a birthday soon, oh yeah, July for me, so I will drop
the hints around the house.

http://tinyurl.com/2h33fk

LOL No problem. These bags usually have all kinds of compartments,
and are handy for much more than fishing.
When, in July, is your birthday?

Higs,
Katherine- Hide quoted text -

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July 2nd, same as my brother...

Padishar Creel wrote:
When, in July, is your birthday?

July 2nd, same as my brother...


And my best friend. Congrats in advance!

On May 16, 12:24 am, Padishar Creel wrote:
On May 15, 8:18 pm, Katherine wrote:





On May 15, 6:24 pm, Padishar Creel wrote:

On May 15, 9:44 am, Katherine wrote:

On May 15, 2:25 am, Padishar Creel wrote:

I am on a search for the perfect knitting/crochet bag. Below are the
specifications I would love to have in a new bag. Anybody seen such a
bag?

1) Waterproof (I live in the Pacific NW, USA)
2) NO zippers (I cut more yarn with zippers than I do with scissors)
3) NO Velcro
4) Stands up on its own when placed on floor
5) A bike messenger bag style for easy carry
6) Compartments to store projects in process
7) Storage for needles
8) Clear gadget bag for small items (no zippers here as well)
9) Comes in manly colors such as camouflage or blue, brown etc.
10) Large enough to store a afghan in process

Well that is the basics for my perfect bag. Perhaps you can add some
your favorite features as well, eh?

Well, you don't want much, do you? g How about a fishing bag?
All I would add is a separate compartment for patterns, as they
get wrinkled with I put them with the project-in-progress.

Higs,
Katherine- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

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Fishing Bag, great idea and I am a fly fisherman and didn't think of
it at all! Here is what I found and I think it may be perfect...Now
all I need is a birthday soon, oh yeah, July for me, so I will drop
the hints around the house.

http://tinyurl.com/2h33fk

LOL No problem. These bags usually have all kinds of compartments,
and are handy for much more than fishing.
When, in July, is your birthday?

Higs,
Katherine- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

July 2nd, same as my brother.

So when do you celebrate? With the rest of the country on the 1st?

Higs,
Katherine

Padishar Creel wrote:
I am on a search for the perfect knitting/crochet bag. Below are the
specifications I would love to have in a new bag. Anybody seen such a
bag?

1) Waterproof (I live in the Pacific NW, USA)
2) NO zippers (I cut more yarn with zippers than I do with scissors)
3) NO Velcro
4) Stands up on its own when placed on floor
5) A bike messenger bag style for easy carry
6) Compartments to store projects in process
7) Storage for needles
8) Clear gadget bag for small items (no zippers here as well)
9) Comes in manly colors such as camouflage or blue, brown etc.
10) Large enough to store a afghan in process

Well that is the basics for my perfect bag. Perhaps you can add some
your favorite features as well, eh?

Padishar Creel

I posted on this before, but it didn't take. I would add the
requirements of light weight and very strong.

That Ovis fly fishing bag looks pretty wonderful, though not exactly
fashionalble!
Madelaine

Madelaine wrote:
Padishar Creel wrote:
I am on a search for the perfect knitting/crochet bag. Below are the
specifications I would love to have in a new bag. Anybody seen such a
bag?

1) Waterproof (I live in the Pacific NW, USA)
2) NO zippers (I cut more yarn with zippers than I do with scissors)
3) NO Velcro
4) Stands up on its own when placed on floor
5) A bike messenger bag style for easy carry
6) Compartments to store projects in process
7) Storage for needles
8) Clear gadget bag for small items (no zippers here as well)
9) Comes in manly colors such as camouflage or blue, brown etc.
10) Large enough to store a afghan in process

Well that is the basics for my perfect bag. Perhaps you can add some
your favorite features as well, eh?

Padishar Creel

I posted on this before, but it didn't take. I would add the
requirements of light weight and very strong.

That Ovis fly fishing bag looks pretty wonderful, though not exactly
fashionalble!
Madelaine

And now my previous message is here too.
Madelaine

Thanks padishar for posting this question and for everyone's responses!

Regarding zippers... are there any equivalents to zip lock baggies? I use
these to store my yarn in, with 3x5 inch brailled index cards so I know
what's in them. I can open the zip lock slightly, pull the yarn out and
crochet with it, I can put the baggie on the floor so the yarn doesn't get
dirty, and the zip lock zippers have only interfered with very fine threads.

David

--
David R. Sky
http://www.shellworld.net/~davidsky/


On Tue, 15 May 2007, Padishar Creel wrote:

On May 15, 9:44 am, Katherine wrote:
On May 15, 2:25 am, Padishar Creel wrote:





I am on a search for the perfect knitting/crochet bag. Below are the
specifications I would love to have in a new bag. Anybody seen such a
bag?

1) Waterproof (I live in the Pacific NW, USA)
2) NO zippers (I cut more yarn with zippers than I do with scissors)
3) NO Velcro
4) Stands up on its own when placed on floor
5) A bike messenger bag style for easy carry
6) Compartments to store projects in process
7) Storage for needles
8) Clear gadget bag for small items (no zippers here as well)
9) Comes in manly colors such as camouflage or blue, brown etc.
10) Large enough to store a afghan in process

Well that is the basics for my perfect bag. Perhaps you can add some
your favorite features as well, eh?

Well, you don't want much, do you? g How about a fishing bag?
All I would add is a separate compartment for patterns, as they
get wrinkled with I put them with the project-in-progress.

Higs,
Katherine- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -
------------
Fishing Bag, great idea and I am a fly fisherman and didn't think of
it at all! Here is what I found and I think it may be perfect...Now
all I need is a birthday soon, oh yeah, July for me, so I will drop
the hints around the house.

http://tinyurl.com/2h33fk

Thanks for all your suggestions....

Padishar Creel

On May 17, 12:35 pm, "David R. Sky" wrote:
Thanks padishar for posting this question and for everyone's responses!

Regarding zippers... are there any equivalents to zip lock baggies? I use
these to store my yarn in, with 3x5 inch brailled index cards so I know
what's in them. I can open the zip lock slightly, pull the yarn out and
crochet with it, I can put the baggie on the floor so the yarn doesn't get
dirty, and the zip lock zippers have only interfered with very fine threads.

Yes, that would be the perfect closure!

Higs,
Katherine

On Tue, 15 May 2007 14:44:20 -0400, Madelaine wrote:

Padishar Creel wrote:

1) Waterproof (I live in the Pacific NW, USA)
2) NO zippers (I cut more yarn with zippers than I do with scissors)
3) NO Velcro
4) Stands up on its own when placed on floor
5) A bike messenger bag style for easy carry
6) Compartments to store projects in process
7) Storage for needles
8) Clear gadget bag for small items (no zippers here as well)
9) Comes in manly colors such as camouflage or blue, brown etc.
10) Large enough to store a afghan in process

You forgot two critical requirements--lightweight and very, very strong.

Look at diaper bags. I just bought a splashy orange one from Amazon
that has every feature except the messenger bag style and rain
resistance (open top). Its gadget bag isn't clear, but that's a minor
deficiency and easily remedied. It even has a nice little waterproof
pad you can sit on when your seating isn't as clean or dry as you'd
like.

You can have a look he
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000G80OIE/104-1807103-5063157

As you can see, the price is pretty good, too. Amazon carries a
number of diaper bags in more manly (and less conspicuous) colors,
too. They even have messenger bags.

I don't like bags with the handle on a cover flap, because you have to
fasten the flap to carry the bag around. Actually, I don't even
consider a cover flap necessary, but I live in two different deserts
and water doesn't fall out of the sky or just sit around here,
menacing my knitting. I don't like metal zippers, but plastic ones
seem to be yarn safe, particularly the coil type.

I try hard to have only one project per bag. I don't always manage
it, particularly with small projects like scarves, but I do try. As a
result, I have several sizes of bags. The orange diaper bag is
holding my Argosy baby blanket and two additional balls and four
additional skeins of Shepherd Sport yarn in Rainbow. My fan and
feather stole is in my Lantern Moon Origami bag. On the other hand,
my Alien illusion scarf is tucked into a rather battered Glad
heavyweight one-gallon zip lock bag.
--
Mary Shafer Retired aerospace research engineer
We didn't just do weird stuff at Dryden, we wrote reports about it.
or
Visit my new blog at http://thedigitalknitter.blogspot.com/

Has anyone mentioned canvas tool bags? Here are a couple of examples:
http://www.kleintools.com/kleinlit/pdf/canvasbags.pdf

http://www.mcguire-nicholas.com/prod...obsite_storage

Marilyn
"Padishar Creel" wrote in message
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I am on a search for the perfect knitting/crochet bag. Below are the
specifications I would love to have in a new bag. Anybody seen such a
bag?

1) Waterproof (I live in the Pacific NW, USA)
2) NO zippers (I cut more yarn with zippers than I do with scissors)
3) NO Velcro
4) Stands up on its own when placed on floor
5) A bike messenger bag style for easy carry
6) Compartments to store projects in process
7) Storage for needles
8) Clear gadget bag for small items (no zippers here as well)
9) Comes in manly colors such as camouflage or blue, brown etc.
10) Large enough to store a afghan in process

Well that is the basics for my perfect bag. Perhaps you can add some
your favorite features as well, eh?

Padishar Creel

I like a brief case to use as a knitting bag. Sounds like you want one of
the old leather "solicitors" brief cases with the nice brass buckles to hold
it closed.

You might try
http://www.levenger.com/PAGETEMPLATE...%7CPageID=3759.
and use a few zip lock bags for gagets.

NB. Nothing in your spec about price!

Aaron


"Padishar Creel" wrote in message
ups.com...
I am on a search for the perfect knitting/crochet bag. Below are the
specifications I would love to have in a new bag. Anybody seen such a
bag?

1) Waterproof (I live in the Pacific NW, USA)
2) NO zippers (I cut more yarn with zippers than I do with scissors)
3) NO Velcro
4) Stands up on its own when placed on floor
5) A bike messenger bag style for easy carry
6) Compartments to store projects in process
7) Storage for needles
8) Clear gadget bag for small items (no zippers here as well)
9) Comes in manly colors such as camouflage or blue, brown etc.
10) Large enough to store a afghan in process

Well that is the basics for my perfect bag. Perhaps you can add some
your favorite features as well, eh?

Padishar Creel