Felted knitting bag
So my really cute knitting bag that my aunt got me for xmas 2 xmases ago (little more than a year ago, same day I learned to knit) is just too small for a sweater. Or sixteen projects all OTN at once. So I am making up my own knitting bag, with a base color of black, to hold more stuff.
So far I'm sticking with a rectangular base...
Here's the swatch with some novelties and other yarns I probably won't use because they felted so differently--
I cast on 40 sts on 10's with Peruvian Highland Wool in black... knit for about 9" or so in garter st, and bound off (I tried icord bind off but didn't like how it looked and it woudln't have matched up with applied icord, so I ripped and bound off normally). Then I did the aforementioned applied I and just finished a bit ago (2 days and since it's not complicated enough to keep my knitting ADD entertained, I taught myself to knit continental just 'cause. I'm still faster in English, but I can do both now).
Then I dyed yarn with dd, since I had some brown sheep and lamb's pride left over that I needed black and blue (lol) and she bought some yarn with her own money and wanted it pink, purple and blue. Pic of hers:
Anywhoo, I also dyed some silk I have black in part (it's magenta) and I may make Annie Modesitt's silk corset in it... we'll see...
So yarn is drying, and I am picking up sts to knit up as far as I can with my peruvian highland. I also have some cascade heathered and some purple/grey/blue souvenir yarn I got in Canada to put in--and probably a bunch more I don't even realize I have