Nourishing Knits Peek Inside - Tapas Totes
If you haven’t subscribed to Nourishing Knits (order here) yet you may not have known that two more patterns in the serialized e-book were released on Monday. Above is one of those patterns - Tapas Totes. They are fun lace cozies sized to fit standard canning jars and/or wine bottles. There are 3 stitch patterns, 3 bag tops and 2 different gauges (laceweight and sport weight) that you can mix and match.
I specifically chose small repeat stitch patterns so you can easily adapt the pattern as you go if you don’t quite match gauge or want to cover a non-standard sized jar. I also set up the bag bottom so that each increase round adds one more pattern repeat for the body so it is as simple as can be to make the cozy larger or smaller. There is also information on how to adjust the depth of the bag and be certain it will fit your container.
It only recently dawned on me that the laceweight large version weighs very little (less than 10 grams) and in the star stitch pattern stretches considerably. This makes it a fantastic reuseable produce bag since it won’t really inflate your produce weight. Being a household of only two I usually purchase our produce in 2-4 quantities so knit as written works well - it’ll hold 4 large apples. But if you need to hold more, again, just work several more increase rounds before starting the body and then perhaps make it a tad shorter and you’ll be set! I took it shopping with me yesterday and it was wonderful. I usually just don’t bag my produce, but it made the self-checkout and bagging process much smoother to have stuff bagged and I didn’t have a plastic produce bag to dispose of.
As with the other Nourishing Knits patterns there is a recipe paired with the Tapas Totes. Our household is known for its lemon curd, which Drew makes more often than I. But I adore my tart fruits, especially citrus, so I decided to mix things up a while ago and made a grapefruit curd. It was good, but just a tad flat since it is not as strongly flavored as lemon. I thought I’d add a touch of sophistication with the addition of an herb. Mint seemed the predictable choice, but I didn’t want predictable. I played around with pairing rosemary with grapefruit and loved the combo and ended up bringing that combo to my grapefruit curd to create the Rosemary Scented Grapefruit Curd recipe that is with the jelly jar cozies. Again, the recipe is only available via the book.
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