My Awesome Bag

[anogete]

I decided to make my mom a knitted handbag for Mother's Day. I never know what to buy her, and I'm unsure as to whether she'd actually wear any garment that I could knit for her. So, I dropped by the yarn store on Monday after work and bought some wool yarn. I loosely used a pattern from the first Stitch 'N Bitch book. I finished the sucker last night and threw it in the wash to felt it.

Oh. My. God. It looks so completely awesome. Now I want to keep it for myself. But I can't. So, I'm going to ship it off to my mother in a couple weeks and make myself another.

This is what it looked like before I felted it. It was a bit floppy and some of the stitches were loose. Due to the type of stitching used, the loose stitches couldn't be helped, but that's why it was intended to be felted.



And this is the finished product after I felted it. I stuck a few paperbacks in it to fill it out a bit. Ignore the hideous doorknob on my balcony door.



The bag is about a foot deep and ten inches wide, so there's plenty of space inside for goodies. Right now it is a bit stinky because it's still wet. Wet wool doesn't smell all that hot.

And because I'm posting pictures, I found this picture I took of Ferguson and Bean sitting on Jason's lap in my car. They both look tired because it was the day we took them to the fundraiser for Quixote Humane, and they were exhausted after meeting all the other dogs.

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[anogete.livejournal.com]

I always end up changing the patterns I use. I can't seem to bend my will enough to stick with the directions. I always change them, and sometimes not for the better.

I'm off to friend your writing journal right now. My writing journal is dead, I think. I never update it, and its paid account expired recently.