Knitted pouches, based on xrian's TI article

Long planned to post - still wrestling with uploading to LJ.
Over the winter I was sick, and had several weeks on the sofa. I spent much of it trying out patterns charted by xrian in a Tournaments Illuminated article.

They are a mix of flat and circular knitting - I'm still perfecting my tension when doing circ knitting, and when I was brain-dead and sick, flat was easy to do.

Some drawstrings are i-cord, some are fingerloop braid. I found one effective trick is to fingerloop a split cord - this way you essentially get 2 cords for the same effort as one, and you can use both strands in the drawstring.

Blocking them made a huge difference to their look and consistency - I'm now a total convert to blocking!

They are lined w/ scrap cotton to finish them.

	first try at circ pouch Better side showing - had trouble w/ tension and green and white pattern!
	madder pink and checks knitted flat, w/ i-cord
	gray w/ madder red and gold This is one of my favourites.
	another flat knitted pouch tried stretching out one of the TI patterns Split fingerloop braid for drawstring.
	first try at pouch First pouch of the collection, flat knitted
	flat knit pouch, from charted patterns in Historic Knit yahoo This is based on a piece shown in Rutt's history of knitting book - islamic knitting, 11-13th c. Trying out a complex colourwork pattern. Happy with it, but slow going!