I decided to make it smaller but to actually do two joined together then folding them and sewing them together to make a pocket. The pocket to house a bar of soap. The pattern is very simple and basic (which is the ONLY reason I attempted it in the first place) starting with 4 stitches and increasing on each row with knit 2, yarn to the front and then decreasing with knitting one, two together, yarn to front and two together. This creates a little row of holes along the edge. With the larger one you'd go back to four on and cast off. However, for this smaller one I started to increase again.
The plan is to fold in half and sew the two together so that it forms a pocket for holding a bar of soap. (This way you don't end up with the daggy bits of soap that you end up either squishing them all together to form a usable size soap or they sit in the soap dish and go gluggy.) Ah... but how to make it re-usable.
I sewed up three sides and then threaded ribbon along those same three sides through both edges leaving a good length at both ends. On the open edge I threaded one end through one side and the other end through the other side so that the hole was still open. I then secured the ribbon at both ends of the opened edge at the corners to stop the ribbon from sliding all the way through.
I found a nice lemon myrtle soap in this particular case to go inside and then gently tied in a bow.
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