Nalbinding Project #5 -- Mammen Stitch Bag/Pouch

Here is a little pouch I did in Mammen Stitch.  Mammen Stitch is 1+2 F2 in the Finnish notation system, and UOO/UUOO F2 in the Hansen notation system.

The yarn is a fluffy low-twist 2-ply yarn, almost certainly acrylic.  It was a fairly small oddball from the acrylic oddball stash.  It was hard to put the needle in the right spot at times since it wasn't always easy to tell what was a strand of yarn vs one of its plies vs some of its neighbor's plies, plus it was very easy to split the yarn with the needle.  I'm sure I made other mistakes, too.  Oh, well, I like it anyway.

I did a chain that was about the right length.  Then I went down one side, increasing 2 stitches at the end (i.e. 3 stitches into the starting loop), then down the other, increasing 2 stitches at that end, and then joined and spiraled upward until I ran out of yarn.

I might add another round or two in a different yarn at some point.

Mammen stitch was reasonably fun to do and I like how it looks.  At some point I'll try the Korgen stitch variant (1+2 but with F1 instead of F2).

I also did a little sampler in York stitch yesterday.  It does indeed spiral in the starting chain.  I joined it into a ring and used the F2 connection, doing stitches until I ran out of my little sampler yarn.  It was still torquing a bit.  I wonder how it behaves when started in a circle?  Anyway, I thought it was perfectly OK to do and I'd do it again.  It has a rather interesting texture.

What shall I do next?  Hmmmm...