4 posts tagged “handbags”
I finished and felted these two weeks ago and I'm just now getting to the photos.
The handbag was made with Lion Brand Landscapes on the green long loom. It has a flat bottom using the stretched-across method. I don't know if that has a real name, but I call it stretched-across. The drawstring purse is made with Landscapes and Paton's wool on the blue loom. It also has a flat bottom using the method with the fancy name.
Landscapes isn't 100% wool so it didn't felt the way I expected it would. I might have run it through again but I can only monopolize my sister's washer for so long. Still, I like how they turned out and have been using them - the little purse as a wallet inside the big purse.
I have been working on some handbags that are to be felted. Not having a washing machine, I have to wait until I got to my sister's to do the felting. I have tried one by hand a while ago and really didn't like how it looked. Having a washing machine is one of my dreams. *sigh* Others dream of fame and power, I dream of being able to do laundry at home.
AC Moore had a yarn sale "event" type thing on Saturday. The sales ad mentioned a hat and scarf drive to benefit the American Cancer Society. In the fall, I made up several hats and scarves with yarn left over from previous projects. I wasn't making them for anyone in particular; sometimes I like making things I can't mess up and that don't require much thought. So, I took the bag to donate. Would have been nice if they'd mentioned the hat/scarf drive to the employees, but I eventually found out where to go. I also bought a ball of yarn while I was there. Just one. First yarn purchase since January first. But, I was only buying it to finish a project as I didn't have enough. So it practically doesn't count.
I have back pain that is interfering with my knitting. Or might be caused by my knitting. Either way, it's irritating. Is there such a thing as a back brace for people who tend to hunch over their work?
I have been clean and sober for nine days. Yarn-buying sobriety, that is. Mom sent me her old circular needles so I have no more desire to spend money on those. I haven't tried the needles, though.
I am working on making this handbag in cranberry wool, but using the round yellow loom because I don't have the KK long yellow loom. I don't have the pink spool loom either (and can't find the knitting spool I do have) so I tried three I-cords braided together for the handles and don't like how they turned out so I'm going to try something else. I tested felting the yarn by hand (sans machine) and it felted up great in little time. Not sure yet about lining it but I do have fabric if I decide to do it.
I got some alpaca chunky yarn on sale for $4.47 per hank. I want to learn how to felt and make a felted purse.
