Backstage Pass Bag in Sirdar Stories DK in Sirdar - 10547 - Downloadable PDF

Backstage Pass Bag Knitting Pattern – Sirdar Stories DK (Design No. 10547)

The Backstage Pass Bag is a stylish, on-trend knitted bag pattern from Sirdar, published as design number 10547. This downloadable PDF pattern is rated intermediate in difficulty and is offered in a one size format, making it a focused and achievable project for knitters who have moved beyond the basics and are ready to explore more creative construction and colourwork techniques.

What Is Being Made

This pattern produces a knitted bag — a fashionable accessory designed with a contemporary aesthetic that draws inspiration from current trends in crochet-look and festival-style fashion. The finished piece is a practical yet eye-catching bag suitable for everyday use or as a statement accessory. Sirdar notes that the design captures the look of crochet in fashion, making it ideal for knitters who love that aesthetic but prefer working with knitting needles.

Yarn and Materials

The pattern is designed specifically for Sirdar Stories Double Knitting yarn, a cotton-rich acrylic blend developed to create lighter garments and accessories that hold their shape beautifully. The cotton content makes this yarn cool and comfortable to work with, and particularly well-suited to summer makes. The blend ensures durability and stitch definition, which is especially important for a bag that needs to maintain its structure through regular use.

• Yarn: Sirdar Stories Double Knitting (cotton-rich acrylic blend)
• Weight: DK (Double Knitting)
• Tension: 21 stitches over 10 cm / 4 inches
• Colours: The pattern involves more than one colour, with multiple shade options available — the PDF references a back page colour guide to help knitters select their preferred combination from the Stories DK shade range

As with all Sirdar patterns, this design has been triple-checked to guarantee a successful result when worked with the recommended Sirdar yarn, giving knitters confidence throughout the making process.

Techniques and Construction

The Backstage Pass Bag is classified as an intermediate knitting project, meaning it is best suited to knitters who are comfortable with standard knitting techniques and ready to work with multiple colours and more complex stitch patterns. The design draws on the visual language of crochet-inspired textures and festival fashion, translated into knitted form.

Colourwork

A key feature of this pattern is its use of multiple colours. Working with more than one colour in a knitting project typically involves techniques such as stranded colourwork, intarsia, or colour blocking, depending on the design. These approaches allow knitters to create bold, graphic, or textured visual effects across the surface of the bag. Managing yarn tension across colour changes is an important skill at this level, and the intermediate rating reflects this added complexity.

Stitch Techniques

While the PDF does not enumerate every individual stitch by name in the extracted content, the pattern's crochet-inspired aesthetic — referenced explicitly by Sirdar — suggests the use of textured stitch patterns that mimic the open, decorative quality of crochet lace or mesh. Knitted lace and openwork stitches, or heavily textured pattern repeats, are commonly used to achieve this effect in DK-weight knitting. The DK tension of 21 stitches to 10 cm confirms a standard gauge that supports clear stitch definition.

Bag Construction

Knitted bags at this skill level are typically constructed in flat panels or in the round, then seamed and finished with handles, straps, or other functional elements. The structured nature of the Stories DK yarn — which is noted for keeping its shape — makes it an excellent choice for a bag that needs to hold its form when in use.

Pattern Format and Brand Background

This pattern is available as a downloadable PDF, making it immediately accessible after purchase. It is published by Sirdar, a British yarn company established in West Yorkshire in 1880, with a long heritage in hand knitting design. Sirdar's Stories Double Knitting yarn is part of a broader seasonal collection that blends classic