Sipalu Bag--The Welt

What is a Welt anyway? I'm going to call it the border of the bag (BOB). The directions say to "Switch to Color A; Knit on Row." No problem. Now it says to "Work five rows in reverse St st".

I decided to work the 5 rows like this: P,N,P,N,P. I have read discussions about the correctness of this; I might be wrong but it's my bag! Now you're supposed to PU 240 stitches from first row of A on the WS of the work." Since I had nice purl bumps from the very first row of color A on the WS I used a second cable needle and picked up all the purl bumps on that needle. I read a discussion wondering if you couldn't do it one at a time, but I'm glad I didn't because first count was 237 stitches (yep, I missed some). I used split-ring markers and tagged the three stitches once I found them.

Finally you take a third needle and knit Stitch 1 from front with Stitch 2 from pickup. When you finish all 240 you have a nice welt!


Picking up 240 stitches


All stitches picked up


Knitting together to form the welt