Quick and Awesome Dice Bag

This is the Deep Sea Flower Dice Bag from Nina Hyland on Ravelry. The original is done in Noro, but I happen to have about half a skein of SWS in Natural Blue left over from that cowl I made myself last winter. It turned out to be a nice substitution. Although, now I wouldn't call this a deep see flower. A pale blue and tan like that... that's more Greek Islands.

It knitted in a night, even on the dpns. Seriously, there was so little swearing, you would've asked for my identification. I even watched Mega Piranhna on SyFy (Tiffany!)while I was knitting and didn't have to tink back--not even once!

Other than the yarn sub, I didn't make any other mods to this, except the closure. My problem with knit dice bags is always the closure (they usually don't). But Nina had a good idea with this one. She made a little knitted bead to lock the I-cord drawstring in place. Clever! I decided, however, to simplify and use an actual bead. This is a light blue pony bead I got from a bag of pony beads I'd bought at a garage sale a couple of summers ago. It didn't fit over the I-cord, so I took an E hook and crocheted a chain. That worked perfectly. I added a bead on each end of the cord so the closure bead couldn't come off.

So here is the bag. It's not lopsided. I stuffed it with a sock so you could see it standing up. It's big enough to hold a couple polyhedral sets or a couple of sets of tenners. Or a cube of sixers, whatever. I'd say two handfuls of dice. Definitely enough to beat this guy, at any rate.