The Bag!
Good evening.
Throat is much better and feeling fine. Grapefruit seed extract to the rescue. It tastes nasty, but spanks my cold's ass. I knitted my pants off yesterday, and finished the handbag that I've been working on for the last week. Thank god for subway knitting, or it never would've happened.
This pattern is from the book "Simple Knits for Sophisticated Living" by Barbara Albright.Link to the book on Amazon I'm not crazy about a lot of the patterns, but there's a lot of things in there with potential. This pattern is called Carried-Away Felted Bag. I used KnitPicks "Wool of the Andes" for the pattern. I used Maple Syrup for the body and Carrot for the lining and strap.
BEFORE:
The length is 17 inches, and about 14 wide. The strap is 90inches (!!!) which took forever, and did not need to be as long as the pattern indicated.
After felting the length turned out about 12". Felting with Wool of the Andes took about three small loads to felt properly. The pockets did not felt fully but enough to be secure.
I've added pockets to the interior and tacked down the straps to the bottom. I wore this bag to Sheep and Wool and it held up ok. The straps need to be tacked down along the length of the bag to be more sturdy. The picture with the pattern indicated a more rectangular bag, but the pattern followed for a longer bag. Still, I'm happy with the outcome despite the misleading picture and plan on making others.
wow! look at all that felted goodness! fantastic darling!
Posted by: gleek | October 14, 2005 at 11:41 AM
Yo biatch- it's Jen. What's this I hear ya ain't frontin' at my h-ween party? You'd totally get along w/ my siter & her friend u knitting fool. Her's her blog http://amyknits.typepad.com/knitblog/
Hope u can make it to that party, invites go out this week. Later, keep on knitting...
Posted by: Jen Green | October 15, 2005 at 09:52 AM
I love that bag! It's really cute, what is the pattern name/origin?
Posted by: Jaime | October 20, 2005 at 06:05 PM
I love that bag! Have you taken it out to see how it holds up?
Posted by: Jaime | October 20, 2005 at 06:06 PM
Thats soooo cute!! <33 jordan
Posted by: Jordan | October 23, 2005 at 10:13 AM
Is that second picture after felting? I just felted mine last night and it shrunk A LOT. I think some of it might depend on the yarn used? Mine is probably just about square... maybe slighty longer than it is tall.
Looks great though!
Posted by: Lara | January 28, 2006 at 12:10 PM
The lace is incredible. If anyone reading this wants to sell their KIPer bags, I'm looking for a set.
Posted by: Tamara Ault | April 02, 2008 at 12:07 PM