My Awesome Bag

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.

( pictures of my beautiful bag )

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.

( cute, tired dogs )