knitting-bag

Instead of her usual chintz knitting-bag she carried, as more suitable to the seaside, a bag of black cloth stoutly lined with the shiny black Italian that she had used to make her windows light-proof during the war.

Through the Wall Wentworth, Patricia 1950

She put the completed stocking away in her knitting-bag and followed the young constable to the study, where she found the police surgeon just about to take his leave of Randal March.

Through the Wall Wentworth, Patricia 1950

The sun shone warmly down on the brown ledges, the little waves crept up the shore with a pleasant murmur, and Melvina, watching Luretta dipping her white stockings in the pool, began to feel less troubled and unhappy; and when Anna came running toward her waving the knitting-bag she even smiled, and was ready to believe that her troubles were nearly over.

A Little Maid of Old Maine Alice Turner Curtis

As she crossed the landing with her knitting-bag on her arm, Cyril Felton was coming up from the hall.

Through the Wall Wentworth, Patricia 1950

Boston relatives, now hung about her neck, and her knitting-bag was lost.

A Little Maid of Old Maine Alice Turner Curtis

She went out – a little dowdy person in garments of outmoded style, the bog-oak rose at her throat, her hair, neatly controlled by a net, piled high in a tight curled fringe after the fashion set by Queen Alexandra in the Nineties and now just coming in again, her feet in woollen stockings and bead-embroidered shoes, a brightly flowered knitting-bag depending from her arm.

The Key Wentworth, Patricia 1944

The little Trout boys whipped their shirts over their heads, and away the five sped, while their grandma sat with one hand in her knitting-bag ready to draw out the ball of wool when she was satisfied they were safely in.

The Garden Party, and Other Stories 1922

I put my knitting-bag over Charlie Sands's tobacco-pouch.

Tish 1916

She rolled up her knitting and put it back in her knitting-bag; it was no use going on, doing work that would have to be ripped out again and yet she must do something to occupy her thoughts.

The Bat Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917

She pulled out a cabinet photograph from the depths of her knitting-bag.

The Bat Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917