Bags & An Excessive Amount of Photos of Them
So, the kestrels bag is almost entirely finished. I swear, it will never die.
I need to attach the handles and sew in the lining. I also need to fix a few areas, but that'll just take a few minutes.
Since I made the floats too short, I cut the majority of the floats and square knotted ends together to get the puckering to, well... stop. Here, I detail the process of cutting the floats. Enjoy. We start with the too-tight floats.
Halfway through the cutting I was amazed at the sheer amount of fabric being revealed, so I took a midway shot.
Finished, the inside of the bag looked... well.. just weird.
But the outside looked pretty cool.
Four rounds in the washing machine later, and I had a felted bag. Unfortunately, there were a few areas where I cut the floats too short and with sippery yarns, some narsty looking holes had been created.
But, like I said, fixable. And now, instead of puckering, the bag sort of scallops out in a V shape, but it looks pretty cool.
In other news, I'm really enjoying watching the Olympics, but it's really hard to knit while doing so. I look down and someone does fifty quadrillion backflips. D'oh.
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