New Stuff!

Yep!  Can't stay with the old for too long... and with a class starting next week, I whipped up this Q-UTE mini bag.
Before felting:

Dimensions:  11-1/2" x 11-1/2"

After felting:

Dimensions:  7" tall, 7-1/2" (base), 9-1/2" across the top

Easy!  This one is already spoken for...

Colors:  No, I didn't use two shades of blue.  They are the same, only next to the red and green they look different.

Curious...

Pattern:  Grab-&-Go Bag by Eileen Adler from Creative Knitting, November 2008

Yarn: Classic Wool by Patons, 100% Wool, Worsted / 10 ply, 210 yards / 100 grams (red and green) Greenwich by Valley Yarns, 100% Wool, Worsted / 10 ply

109 yards / 50 grams (blue)

More from my garden...

Pattern:  hopsalots by tiny owl knits from tinyowlknits' Ravelry Downloads;  Adult size paired down to fit a 2 year old.

Needle and yarn

Needle

US 11 - 8.0 mm

Yarn

spurwink merino, Used Doubled

Stash 

585.0 yards in stash

How much?

1.2 skeins = 140.4 yards (128.4m)

Colorway

coral

Purchased at

KnitWit Yarn Shop in Portland, Maine

Purchase date

July 10, 2010

Trying new things:

This is felting by hand.  I poured boiling water over these strips, twirled them around, and found they felted best by rolling them vigorously in my hands.  They are pulls for slippers.

I don't trust felting!

Nope.  I don't know what I'll get and well... someone else has put it in better words than I can:
Please read!


I promise I'll make these when she finishes tweaking the pattern.