Yarn: Cascade 220 (No, I don't remember the colors)
Bag Pattern: Modified No Rules tote (bottom up instead of top down)
Flower Pattern: MagKnits Poppies
Needles: 8s for the bag, 10s for the handles and flowers
Project Started: Mid April 2004
Project Finished: June 12, 2004
Well, if you want mindless stockinette for a movie, this is certainly the project for you. This was my metro knitting (granted off and on) for two months. But to get 30+" of 180 stitches on size 8 needles... let's just say it took a while.
As you can guess from the title, this was my first felt. I ended up felting it for four washer cycles - a total of 48 minutes. I would occasionally go and check on it and do a little happy "I'm felting now!" dance. I actually blocked and sewed everything together after three felts but decided it was a little too big and floppy and put it through the washer one more time before lining it with two quarter flats of fabric (only $.99 each at Joann's!). I got most of it done on the sewing machine - only the very bottom needed to be hand sewn.
This bag is huge. Therefore, I love it. I'm now in the process of knitting a much smaller bag to hold my wallet and keys inside the giant felted purse of doom.
Here are my beautiful beads with the swatch of yarn for my Juliet pullover!
Yay! Now I must find the matching yarn. Boo.
And here's the progress of my Vogue Criss Cross so far:
Tomorrow I go to a family reunion in Pennsylvania. Lots of time to knit!
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