Mademoiselle Riego’s Work Bag by Lesley O'Connell Edwards

Mademoiselle Riego’s Work Bag

Knitting
July 2014
DK (11 wpi) ?
8 stitches and 9 rows = 1 inch
in ribbing
US 3 - 3.25 mm
US 1 - 2.25 mm
110 yards (101 m)
English

A striped work bag in the shape of a jug, using five shades of greens and four shades of purples in tapestry wool, 9.5 inches high and 3.5 at the widest part. Recreated from a pattern by Mademoiselle Riego in 1848. She suggests that the handle of the bag / jug goes over the wrist.