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Thanks to Marianne Holmen, Bremen Library Bag is now available in Danish!

The Bremen Town Musicians was one of my favorite fairy tales growing up. It was first published in Grimms’ Fairy Tales back in 1819 and tells the story of four aging animals whose owners no longer find them useful. One by one, they decide to run away to the town of Bremen to become musicians. They travel down the country road as the sun is setting, stacked one atop the others. The group never actually arrives in Bremen; they trick a band of robbers and scare them from their home, taking the loot and home for themselves. A bronze statue of the Bremen Town Musicians created by Gerhard Marcks was erected in 1953 in Bremen, Germany.

The front panel of the bag is double knit, making the bag reversible and also preventing long floats on the inside of the bag for book corners or fingers to catch on. The remainder of the bag is worked in linen stitch for structure and to reduce stretch.

The sample was knit with handspun yarn:
MC 100% alpaca batt; color: black; 7.5 ounces/213g
CC Esther’s Place Fibers merino wool, bamboo, silk threads, Angelina, pluckyfluff; crazy batt; color: one-of-a-kind; 1 ounce/28g

Finished Yarn
Wraps per inch: 12
Ply: 2
Yardage used: MC 284yd/260m; CC 96yd/88m
Drafting methods:
MC Fiber pre-drafted and spun worsted using short forward draw method
CC Fiber pre-drafted and spun semi-woolen using the American sliding supported long draw method
All singles were spun “Z” and plied “S”; CC singles were plied with commercially available ThreadArt wooly nylon thread in grey (color 9116).

Suggested Commercial Yarn Alternative
MC Cascade 220 Sport Yarn 100% peruvian highland wool; 164yd/150m per 50g skein; color: Jet (4002); 3 skeins
CC Freia Fine Handpaints Ombre Sport Yarn 100% wool; 217yd/198m per 75g skein; color: Metropolis; 1 skein

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