booga bag instructions

[brookenic]

* Pick up and knit twisted 16 stitches along first edge of rectangle. There are 17 ridges, so you just pick up one stitch between each ridge.
* Pick up and knit 34 stitches along the bottom of your rectangle.
* Pick up 16 stitches along last edge as you did for the first edge.


This is confusing me. Does Amy have a video???? Those always help. Anyone know what I should be doing there? TIA ~Brooke

[Jenifer Peters]

I am sorry I can't help you on this but I would like to find out cause I have a pattern that says about the same Sorry Jenifer

[koolbreeze]

ME TOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :crying:

[Mer]

I asked a similar question here (http://www.knittinghelp.com/knitting/forum/viewtopic.php?t=952) for another bag I was doing. Look at Amy's pick up stitches video.

Also, I didn't do the "and knit" part, just picked up the stitches until they were all on the needles and then began knitting in the round. That was the part that was really confusing to me. :??

[brookenic]

Well we're all in this together. Someone will be around to help us soon...I hope. ~Brooke

[brookenic]

:cheering: Thanks Mer :cheering:

[koolbreeze]

are you all doing it on circulars cause i'm not understanding how to continue on them ... or do i have to take them off????? :thinking:

[Mer]

are you all doing it on circulars cause i'm not understanding how to continue on them ... or do i have to take them off????? :thinking:

You shouldn't change needles--you want to stay on circulars so that you pick up enough stitches to form a big circle. Then you start knitting in the round. I remember it was pretty tough picking up the first few stitches when I did it because you already have some stitches on the needles (I think your pattern is probably the same).

[koolbreeze]

yep thats it. but i did what you did and it is working so thanks for the tip Mer!!! :happydance:

[Hildegard_von_Knittin]

pick up and knit really just means pick up. for the booga bag, once you've got the flat bottom done, just pick a corner, stick your needle in, wrap the yarn around just like a knit stitch, and pull it through. Voila, one stitch picked up... now, just keep on going all the way around (go to the left of where you started) and you'll be done in no time. There have been LOTS of posts about the booga bag; some people had similar questions, so you might do a search on the site for those posts.

[foothills]

I am knitting the BIGGA BAG (a bigger Booga bag) :lol: because once I picked up all the stitches, the bag bottom seemed smaller than I wanted it to be...so I frogged and started over...a lady at the lys told me that she had read somewhere to add to a pattern in multiples, so instead of casting on 34 stitches, I casted on 54...and so on....still working on the bag and pray that it turns out ok, but it will take probably 4-maybe 5 skeins rather than 3 as called for in the pattern. She also told me that she found it easier to pick the stitches onto a crochet hook and then transfer back onto the circular needles with the live stitches...I detest picking up stitches...I don't knit very tight, but it seems that it is difficult for me to "pick-up" those stitches anyway!

Joyce

[LilT23]

I'm having so much trouble with this exact same thing...I've read all the posts I can find on this subject, and I STILL can't figure out how to go from knitting the 34th row to beginning the part where I start picking up stitches. I completely understand HOW to pick up stitches...that part makes sense to me...but I don't know which corner to begin doing that or how exactly.

I know some of the posts say to choose a corner and start picking up stitches, but I don't know HOW to start that, considering my working yarn is on my left needle. I'm at the point where I just finished knitting the 34th row...I have 34 stitches on my left needle and 0 stitches on my right needle...where do I go from here? I'm assuming I'm not supposed to break the yarn here and start picking up stitches on one of the other corners...

From what I can find, the twisted stitch referred to in the pattern is the same as knitting through the back loop, which sounds easy enough...but how do I start doing that?

Please help!! I would appreciate any and all suggestions on how to progress from here...thanks!

[brookenic]

I never even made this bag! It's on my To Knit List. Sorry I'm no help.

[LilT23]

Thanks for replying anyway... :D

I've read so many posts that make it sound like this is easy...so I feel even more frustrated that I can't figure it out! :?? I really hope somebody can shed some light on this because it's such a cute bag, and I'd hate for all this expensive yarn to go to waste.....

[Hildegard_von_Knittin]

hi! I think I can help... let me take a few pictures and I'll post what to do.

Have you been knitting with circular needles the whole time?

[brookenic]

I feel the same way about Inserting a needle into destination row, before unraveling. I've been practicing. I guess I would suggest that to you. Practice. :D

[LilT23]

hi! I think I can help... let me take a few pictures and I'll post what to do.

Have you been knitting with circular needles the whole time?

Yes, I've been using circular needles from the beginning...hopefully, that's what I was supposed to do.....

[Hildegard_von_Knittin]

yep you were just checking....

by digicam batteries just died! But I can find new ones in 5 minutes :-)

[LilT23]

yep you were just checking....

by digicam batteries just died! But I can find new ones in 5 minutes :-)

Hooray! Way to be prepared! :cheering:

[Hildegard_von_Knittin]

POO!!!!!


it's taking me longer than I thought. Apparently the only thing in my house that takes double A batteries is the digi cam... we don't have any other sizes anywhere in the house! I can't even get the 2 good pictures I took OFF the cam :mad:
if i had any kind of art skills I could do a picture in paint or print shop or something. :evil:
Do you have yahoo messenger? PM me and I'll give you my ID... then I can show you on the webcam (which takes crappy pictures, but is OK for streaming video).

I feel like a real dork saying I can help and not being able to becasue of technical difficulties :help:

[knitqueen]

I know some of the posts say to choose a corner and start picking up stitches, but I don't know HOW to start that, considering my working yarn is on my left needle. I'm at the point where I just finished knitting the 34th row...I have 34 stitches on my left needle and 0 stitches on my right needle...where do I go from here? I'm assuming I'm not supposed to break the yarn here and start picking up stitches on one of the other corners...

Yes, when you finish the 34th row you would think that your working yarn would then be on your left needle BUT you will start picking up stitches BEFORE you turn your needle after completing your 34th row....therefore all the stitches you just completed will be on your right needle with the working yarn right there too and the work you just completed hanging down (obviously). You will start picking up stitches down the left side of your work as it is facing you as I described above. So you will use the tip of your right needle to pick up stitches down that side, your working yarn right there to get you started, then when you get to the bottom of that row you just keep going around the bottom of your piece, then up the other side. You will then be ready to join and start knitting in the round.

When I made my booga, I didn't do the twist stitches. I didn't know what that meant so I skipped it. My bag came out great!

I hope this has been helpful, let us know how it goes.

[LilT23]

:figureditout: I get it now!! :figureditout:

:happydance: :cheering: :happydance: :cheering: :happydance: :cheering:

Now I can stop :wall: and forge on..... :XX: I just feel kinda stupid because it was so simple...my problem was that I was automatically turning the work over after the 34th row. :doh:

Thanks so much for your help, everyone! Hildegard_von_Knittin...I would've replied to you with my IM info last night, but I had to get to bed...thanks for all your effort with the digicam, though!

Hopefully, I can make good time with the rest of this bag, and I'll post a pic if I don't screw it up.....

[Hildegard_von_Knittin]

yay knit queen! Thank goodness YOU could put it into words.

LilT, we can't wait to see the finished project!

[kemp]

I asked an experienced knitter about this knitting a twisted row on this booga pattern...her answer was since it occurs when you are transitioning from the bottom of the bag to the sides, it was to make it tighter around the bottom since so there are no holes and it is stronger there.

You can skip it all together...the felting should shrink any holes anyway, or just do this (there may be an easier way, like knitting into the back or something, but this works) just pick up the stitch you are about to knit with the right needle and go into the back of it then use the left needle again to help you twist the stitch and put it back on the left needle, then knit as normal and do with each stitch you are supposed to twist thereafter. Like if you picked off the stitch with your finger and literally twisted it so that the stitch tightens. Hope this makes some kind of sense.

[Hildegard_von_Knittin]

I've made a bunch of boogas and I never knit the stitches twisted; never had any problems. I dont' believe in doing something unless I know the reason why (sometimes that endup biting me in the you-know-what later), so since I didn't know the reason i never did it.... Noe that Kemp told us what the reason is for knitting twisted stitches I still won't do it, b/c nothing happens when you don't. I love knitting... it's like you can just make it up as you go along!!!! :happydance:

[kemp]

I agree Hilde! I did a modified version and did not do the twisted. No problemo :thumbsup:

[Rennagayle]

Well, drat. I'm getting ready to start my first Booga (which always makes me think of booger :rofling: ), so I'm reading all the existing threads I can find on Booga's (snort, snort) before I get started. I got really excited when reading this one, thinking Hildie was getting ready to post pictures, only to be let down....sigh. :rollseyes:

Seriously enough, I think I understand what to do, based on all that's been written, and will quit procrastinating at the computer and get started, but I do have one question first.

Hildie, I read that you double your yarn when doing the bottom, for extra support. I think I'd like to do that as well. Please bear my inexperience in mind when I asked what will probably sound like a dumb question, but is there any adjustments I need to make in the number of stitches or needle size or anything if I use two strands, or merely drop the second strand and continue on, when I get to the point that I no longer need it thicker? :??

[KellyK]

That is exactly what you do....

[Rennagayle]

Thanks Hildie...uh, I mean Kelly! :mrgreen: By the way, I love your new picture. :D

[KellyK]

You are most welcome, and, THANKS!

(Hildie and I are pretty much interchangeable, you know! :thumbsup: )