Netting . . . holes tied together with string

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But to work! To work! Make another loop, exactly like the last one, through Loop 1, and keep going until you have fifteen or so additions to the original circle. Cut the twine between the needle and the last knot, close to the fastening itself.

You should now be able to lay out the work with Loop 1 as the sun and the fifteen or more additions as rays. Fig. 6 is a rather idealized drawing of this situation and has sixteen surrounding loops because the diagram is easier to draw that way. Call the ray-loops Row 1.

Now tie the loose end of the twine on the needle to any one of the loops in the first row. This knot is A in Fig. 7.

Pick up the next loop in Row 1 with the needle, gauge the length over three fingers-pulling just gently tight-and make a netter's knot in the second loop. Take another look at Fig. 7 to help you.

Next make a loop between the second and third circles of the first row, another between the third and fourth, and so on all the way around. (Make sure you get every one of those bits of string in the correct order. It's one of my failings to tie Number 4, say, to Number 9 and then wonder what happened.) When you've finished the circuit and made the connection between the last and first loop of Row 1—so completing the second round—cut the twine.

If you spread the net out now, it no longer resembles the sun but a flower with small petals and large sepals looking over the shoulders of those petals. Fig. 8 will give you the idea.

Continue to work until you've made a third row on the second, a fourth on the third, and so on through twelve rows.

Finally, thread a handle through the loops of Row 12 ... a strong bootlace, a piece of quarter-inch cotton rope or some other material which is soft enough to let your hands take the weight of the load. The string bag is now finished.

You'll agree that your carrying bag is a useful handful. Fig. 9 shows its dimensions crumpled up, and the netted carryall can be seen supporting 23-1/2 pounds of gravel and one pound of curious kitten in Fig. 10.

The net I've just described can be made in various sizes for various purposes. If you need an open-ended tube (like a basketball net) rather than a bag, just cut through the first ring of loops to release them.

A FLAT NET

If you prefer to make a flat net for tennis, volleyball, rabbiting or holding things conveniently in the roof of the yurt ... that too, you'll find, is easy.

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