The magical D4 Bag of Dice Holding holds a large number of dice, and opens wide to allow you to see the ones you want. This artifact isn’t to be found in any treasure chest or dragon’s cave. You have to use arcane arts — including intarsia in the round, short row shaping, and felting — to call it forth. It is simpler than it sounds, but you don’t have to tell the rest of your gaming party that!

The pattern includes instructions for intarsia in the round, short row shaping, three needle bind-off, felting, and I-cord, plus it has links to tutorials for some of them. There is a chart for the intarsia motifs, and a diagram to help get the pieces put together correctly. There are also suggestions for customizing the bag. The bag knits up quickly, with inexpensive materials you may already have in your stash. A truly magical project!

From test-knitter lindseymac: Even though this project took a variety of pretty complex techniques, the instructions were clear enough to make it a great beginner project for each of these different techniques.

Skills Used:

• Knitting in the round
• Intarsia in the round
• Short row shaping
• 3-needle bind-off
• Felting (fulling)
• Reading a colorwork chart

Materials Needed:

• Knit Picks Wool of the Andes (110yds/100m per 1.75oz/50g skein); mc: 2 skeins; cc: 1 skein (or other feltable worsted weight wool; mc: approx. 205yds/190m; cc: approx. 15yds/14m)

• US10/6mm needles (or size to get gauge for wool): 24”/60cm circular plus set of 4 dpns, two circulars, or one long circular for Magic Loop

• Lily Sugar’n Cream (120yds/109m per 2.5oz/71g skein); mc: 1 skein (roughly 40yds/36m needed) (or other worsted weight cotton or non-felting fiber; approx. 40yds/36m)

• US7/4.5mm needles (or size to get gauge for cotton): circular, at least 20”/50cm, and two dpns for I-cord

• Tapestry needle or crochet hook to weave in ends

• Stitch markers (optional)

• 3 yarn bobbins (homemade are fine)