Felted Mini Drawstring Bag

For June's HPKCHC Potion's class, I wanted to do a small felted bag (a place to keep a house key tucked away). I decided to improvise. My pattern is provided here in case anyone wants to do something similar.

Felted Mini Drawstring Bag

Materials:

approx 11 grams of Paton's worsted wool yarn (or another feltable worsted weight yarn)

US 9 needles (either double point or a long circular to allow you to knit in the round)

CREATING THE BOTTOM (this will be a hexagon shape when you are done)

Cast on 8 stitches

Row 0. knit one row

Row 1. KFB, K to 1 stitch before marker, KFB (10 stitches)

Row 2. Knit all stitches

Row 3. KFB, K to 1 stitch before marker, KFB (12 stitches)

Row 4. Knit all stitches

Row 5. KFB, K to 1 stitch before marker, KFB (14 stitches)

Row 6. Knit all stitches

Rows 7-12: Knit all stitches

Row 13. SSK, K to 2 stitches before marker, K2tog (12 stitches)

Row 14. Knit all stitches

Row 15. SSK, K to 2 stitches before marker, K2tog (10 stitches)

Row 16. Knit all stitches

Row 17. SSK, K to 2 stitches before marker, K2tog (8 stitches)

Row 18. Knit all stitches

CREATING THE BODY OF THE BAG

Pick up and knit stitches around the base of the bag until you have 36 stitches on either DPNs or on a long circular set up to knit with magic loop - place markers after every 9 stitches with a different style of fourth marker to mark the end of row

Rows 1-6: Knit all stitches

Row 7: (Knit 7 stitches, K2tog) 4 times (32 stitches)

Row 8: Knit all stitches

Row 9: (Knit 6 stitches, K2tog) 4 times (28 stitches)

Row 10-11: Knit all stitches

Row 12: (Knit 5 stitches, K2tog) 4 times (24 stitches)

Row 13-14: Knit all stitches

Row 15: (Knit 4 stitches, K2tog) 4 times (20 stitches)

Row 16: Knit all stitches

Row 17: (K2tog, YO) 10 times (20 stitches)

Row 18-20: Knit all stitches

Cast off all stitches.

My bag after knit (before felting) was approximately 3 3/4 " tall, 2" wide at base, and 2" wide at base

To ensure that the eyelets at the neck of the bag stayed open during felting, I wove a small plastic bag through the openings

I put the bag into a pillowcase (pinned shut) and washed it in hot water in the washing machine along with a load of towels.

After felting, you can use a ribbon or single crocheted "rope" as the drawstring for your bag.