These are not an original idea but I have always wanted to try to make little soap bags to be used as wash cloths with the nice spa type soap inside. After screwing around this is what I came up with.
Cast on 38 stitches with Lion Cotton worsted or similar. I used size 6 straight needles.
Knit 4 rows stockinette.
Then start a stitch pattern that is open and bumpy for the exfoliating effect. I used a bramble pattern in one and an open cross stitch in another so the suds can flow out. Leave a knit st on both sides of the row as selvage for sewing up.
Continue in the pattern for about 3 inches (or enough to cover your soap bar.)
Knit a row.
Purl a row.
Next row: K1, *K1, K2tog, yo. Repeat * to last stitch (ish. doesn't have to be perfect) k1.
Next row purl.
Next row knit.
Next row purl.
Next row cast of with a picot cast off. I used a two stitch picot: Cast on two, bind off four. Repeat.
Sew up the side seam. Sew the bottom seam with the side seam centered in the back of the bag.
I made i-cord with a small US4 double point. I made the cord just long enough to tie around the top of the bag.
