In the past few months my husband and I have been learning to play Dungeons and Dragons. We started out with a duet campaign and have now started a new one with a couple of friends. One friend in the party did not have her own dice yet and these came as a bonus gift with an order from Die Hard Dice. I decided these should go to my friend, and I should make a matching bag for storage.

The yarn is some leftover Koigu KPPPM that I used for ornaments at Christmas. I wanted something with purple to match the dice, because there is plenty of purple hanging out in my stash. I was obsessively watching a new teen superhero drama on Netflix called I Am Not Ok with This and stayed up too late knitting this at the same time because it was doable in a couple of hours.

If you feel like making your own dice the pattern is really simple. I cast on 40 stitches over 2 needles using Judy’s Magic Cast on to make this using magic loop. I knit for 2 rows, then did mirrored increases on the next row like this: *K1, M1R, knit until 2 stitches from the end of side, M1L, k1*, rep from * to *one time. Then I knit 3 rounds, did another increase round, knit 7 rounds, then I did a mirrored decrease round. The mirrored decrease round went like *K1, ssk, knit until 3 from end of side, K2tog, k1*, rep from * to * one more time. Knit 7 more rounds, decrease round, 7 rounds, decrease round, then 3 rounds. On the next round I made holes for the cord with yarn overs evenly spaced over the round. I made 10 holes total. Then I knit 7 more rounds and bound off. I made a 2 stitch I-cord about 8 inches long and wove it through the holes of the pouch.

Dungeons and Dragons has been taking up a good chunk of my mental space lately, but it’s SO FUN. I am also slowly studying up on how to be the Dungeon Master for a game at some point, and that’s quite a bit of an undertaking.

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