Dear Self,

Please don’t knit a felted bag when you have travelled for ten hours in fog and the freezing cold, and have only had 5 hours sleep.  You will misalign the corners of the base and the handles so that the bag is mis-shapen and not fit to be given as a christmas present.

However it will probably be ok just to store a knitting project by your bed or something.

Please don’t regret too much that you’ve just felted 3 skeins of yarn that you actually liked, and can’t get back.

bet felted flowers look good to you right about now.

sympathetic love,
me

I’m trying, and failing to remember who’s link I followed to small hands’ tutorial of how to make zipped box bags, though it was probably something to do with Backtack.

Anyways Clementine’s Shoes’ latest flickr pictures lit a fire under me and i just spent the last 3 hours making my first bag, which is destined for the Christmas box, (hence the lack of picture.)

However I can post pictures of the skirt i made on friday.

If you can ignore the slight blurriness, and the weird expression on my face – how cute and scarily matching is my outfit today?  the scarf is the ‘Backyard Leaves’ from Scarf Style knitted in red debbie bliss cashmerino aran, while the hat is actually W’s and bought at the Gap last year.

the skirt is black corduroy, with small machine stitched designs on the front:

(little houses – i’ve been wanting to do this for AGES.)

(Trees – obviously inspired by all the great folliage around at the moment.)

the bottom hem is lime green grass, which is a bit of a shout out to my sister since lime has become her colour of choice – like me and turqoise. 🙂

obviously the machine embroidery isn’t the finest in the world, but it’s my first attempt and my Brother PX-200 isn’t really an embroidery sewing machine. but i love it none the less. 🙂

to be honest there are still a couple of things left to do on it – i need to take in the central seams about half an inch each side since it’s a bit big for me. Plus i’m going to add a small card pocket to the waistband seam because i’m sick of having no-where to put a tube ticket or debit card. 

but on the whole i’m really happy with it. 🙂 i can see this being a stape of winter this year.

and now i must go steam potatoes.

So the Stitch n Bitch…

by 5pm i was well on my way to chickening out, because again with the shy, but W shooed me out the door and it was an excuse for a bike ride so off i went with the raspberry socks i’m currently constructing.

And… it was great! i can’t wait for next week. Everyone was lovely, and approximately around my age enough for me not to feel like the baby or old lady of the group, and people were knitting interesting things, and had brough old pattern magazines for us to coo over and mock, and there was enough cross over in our lives for us to understand and make ‘oh well if you like that, you’ll definately like…’ suggestions.

and i knitted half a sock, (my first toe-up) and now have to work out how to turn a heel from this way around.

so yay! i’m out in the land of the living again. And with this success under my belt i may even sort out to go along to the quilter’s meeting next week. assuming i can find it this time! 😉