I finally finished that darn felted bag that I started ages ago. I have to show you a sideways pictures because I can’t get the computer to save the rotated version (No matter how I point my camera, WordPress always shows the picture sideways. At least it normally lets me change the orientation, but today it likes it sideways. This bag is cursed. And sideways.)
The important thing – the really important thing, and I can’t stress this enough – is that it is finished.
My mom came to visit this weekend – which was fantastic. We did indeed go to the yarn store (among many other activities), and I stocked up for three, no four projects, with expert help from my mom.
No doubt I’ll be outlining the victories and setbacks in these projects in the days and weeks to come, but here’s a preview:
(1) Alligator scarf (with pattern)
(2) Felted tote bag (without pattern)
(3) Stuffed owl doll (with pattern)
(4) Shawl/Wrap (with hand-crafted pattern from my mom)
Will post more with links to patterns and pictures soon… I’ve already made a lot of progress on the alligator scarf, avoided the 8-stitch double-pointed needle start in one project (the tote bag), only to have to do not one, but TWO 6-stitch DPN starts for another (the owl). I guess I’d better learn to like doing this – so many projects I’d like to do involve starting to knit in the round from 6-8 stitches. If only there was a way to grow two extra pairs of hands…
Working on my daughter’s scarf:
And now that it’s really, really not a secret– here’s Redbeard’s scarf:
I’m starting to think beyond scarves, now… and I have my eye on this project as my “work up to” goal. Felting is what got me re-interested in knitting in the first place.