A gentle companion for your everyday shopping, the Vanilla Market Bag blends simple stitches with timeless charm. It’s perfect for weekend markets, library visits, or carrying fresh blooms home. Sturdy, soft, and beautifully practical, it’s the kind of knit that slips quietly into your life and stays. And the best part? There’s a full YouTube tutorial to guide you through every step!
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Needles
US 8 – 5 mm 32”- 80 cm circular needles
US 8 – 5 mm DPNs
Yarn
Sport weight
I used: Hobbii Rainbow Bamboo 273 yds / 250 m – 3.53 oz / 100 g – 60% Manufactured Fibers – Rayon from Bamboo – 40% Cotton
Yardage: approx. 156 yds / 143 m
Gauge
15 stitches and 15 rounds = 4″ / 10 cm in DWS pattern
Other notions
BOR Stitch marker
Tapestry needle
Sizing
Circumference: 24″ / 61 cm
Bag length: 12” / 30.5 cm
Handle length: 12” / 30.5 cm
Abbreviations
approx – approximately
bo – bind off
co – cast on
decr – decreases
DSW – double wrap stitch
k – knit
incr – increases
kfb – knit front and back
p – purl
pm – place marker
st (sts) – stitch (stitches)
GLOSSARY
Double wrap stitch – DWS
First round: Insert your needle into the first stitch of your round. Wrap the yarn around your right needle as you normally would to knit a stitch, but this time, you’re going to wrap it around the needle a second time as well. Pull both loops through the stitch and complete as a normal knit stitch; however, you will have 2 loops on the right needle instead of just 1.
Repeat this process of double wrapping for every stitch along this round. At the end of the round, you will have double the number of loops.
Second round: Insert your right needle into the first of the two loops of the first stitch and knit it as usual. Once you have knitted the stitch, drop the second loop off of the left needle. This makes the stitch taller, giving the fabric an open effect.
Repeat to the end of the round, you now have the same number of loops as at the beginning of round 1.
Repeat steps 1 to 4 to continue working in Double Wrap Stitch.
Elastic Bind off
Knit one stitch. Knit another one. Now insert your left needle through the 2 st you have on your right, in front of the right needle. Knit these 2 st together through the back loop. You have bound off 1 stitch. Now you can knit the following st from your left needle and repeat the process until you have worked all your stitches.
Vanilla Market Bag Pattern Description
Base
Using DPNs needle or 32” (80 cm) circular needle and magic loop method, CO 8 sts and join in the rnd. PM to mark beg of rnd.
Rnd 1: kfb (16 sts)
Rnds 2 and all even rounds: purl
Rnd 3: K1, kfb [8 sts incr; 24 sts]
Rnd 5: K2, kfb [8 sts incr; 32 sts]
Rnd 7: K3, kfb [8 sts incr; 40 sts]
Rnd 9: K4, kfb [8 sts incr; 48 sts]
Rnd 11: K5, kfb [8 sts incr; 56 sts]
Rnd 13: K6, kfb [8 sts incr; 64 sts]
Rnd 15: K7, kfb [8 sts incr; 72 sts]
Rnd 17: K8, kfb [8 sts incr; 80 sts]
Rnd 19: K9, kfb [8 sts incr; 88 sts]
Rnd 21: K10, kfb [8 sts incr; 96 sts]
Body
(DWS instructions: see Glossary)
Rnd 1: DWS. [96 sts incr; 192 sts]
Rnd 2: DWS. [96 sts decr; 96 sts]
Rnd 3: Knit.
Rep rnds 1-3, until your bag is approx 11″/ 28 cm long.
Border
Rnd 1: Knit.
Rnd 2: Purl.
Rnd 3: Knit.
Rnd 4: Purl.
Rnd 5: Knit.
Handles
Rnd 6: P4, bo 40, p8, bo 40, p4.
Rnd 7: K4, co 40, k8, co 40, k4.
On the foll row, bind off all stitches loosely using an elastic
bind-off (see Glossary on page 3).
Finishing
Weave in ends and block the accessory to finished measurements.