Kokomo Shopper & Bag knitting Pattern (English)

Kokomo Shopper is worked in a mesh stitch pattern with incorporated straps and a nice rounded bottom. Kokomo bag is a small bag in a mesh stitch pattern with an incorporated handle and a nice rounded bottom. 

Both shopper and bag are worked from the top down by casting on for the strap / handle with provisional cast-on technique. The first part of the strap / handle is worked straight down in a mesh pattern and increases at the bottom. The second half of the strap / handle is worked in the same way on the basis of the cast-on stitches. For the shopper another strap is worked.

Now the straps / handle are joined by cast-on stitches and worked in the round. The shopper 7 bag is shaped by different intervals of decreases. 

Size Shopper / Bag 

Width 39 / 20 cm

Length (med/uden hank(e)) 55/39 // 23/11 cm

knitting gauge 12 stitches • 18 rows / rounds in mesh pattern on a 8mm needle = 10 • 10 cm

Suggested needles Circular 8 mm needles (60 or 40 cm and double pointed needles, unless the magic-loop method is being used) 

Materials

1 strand of Neon (50 g/ 85 m) from Lang Yarns 200 g

(shopper 160 g / bag 30 g / gauge swatch 10 g)