QR-code bag/ Väska med QR-kod

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QR-CODE BAG – A NEW WAY TO ADVERTISE THE ADDRESS TO YOUR WEB SITE OR BLOG

On a Swedish blog I found the idea of how to embroider a QR-code – Quick Response Code - on to the back of a jacket. To embroider is not for me so I knitted it instead and I made it like this:

QR-codes are two-dimensional bar codes – matrix codes - and were created in Japan in1994. The creator intended the code to allow its contents to be decoded at high speed. QR Codes storing addresses and URLs may appear in magazines, on signs, buses, business cards, or just about any object that users might need information about.
Users with a camera phone equipped with the correct reader, app, can scan the image of the QR Code causing the phone's browser to launch and redirect to the programmed URL

FIRST I created my QR-code for my blog http://upprepat.blogspot.com. To create your own code, go to http://qrcode.kaywa.com/. You can generate a code for your blog or web-page, your name, your phone number or as text. Any text or maybe you would like to knit the QR-code for your favourite poem.

THEN I transferred it to my computer – MS-excel – to make it clearer and then I coloured the pattern to match the yarn I was going to use.

I used NATURGARN 12/2, a 2-ply lace yarn, and 2 mm (US 0) needles. Use the shortest circular needle (40 cm), 5 double pointed needles or with a long (100 cm) circular needle and do magic loop. You can use any yarn and any needles.
As I had so thin yarn, I knitted 2 stitches and 2 rows to every square of the pattern.
YOU START from the top of the pattern and CAST ON 132 stitches and knit the top edge:
Knit 10 rows white
Purl 1 row
Knit 10 rows white, here I knitted a small Fair Isle-pattern

You continue the pattern with
4 st white, 58 st QR-code, 8 st white, 58 st QR-code, 4 st white =132 stitches.
When the QR-code is knitted, you end by knitting 2 white rows. Change colour and knit another 10 rows.

Bind off with three needle bind off. Weave in loose ends.

I made my bag more squared by sewing in and cutting the corners off. If you do this, remember to do the same on the lining.

TWO COLOURED I-CORD for strap and button hole:
CAST ON 4 sts on a double pointed needle, 2 mm (US 0), with white yarn.
Knit 4 sts. DO NOT TURN!
Slip the sts back to the right of the needle and knit the row again. This time use another colour.
Continue like this, knitting alternate row with white and another colour until the I-cord is 2,2 meters. I knitted my I-cord this long and used it double.
For the buttonhole, cast on and knit a 10 cm two coloured I-cord.
LINE the bag, and attach the strap, the buttonhole and a button.

© Kerstin Öhman 2010