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Wednesday, April 6, 2011

This is way past due . . .

Today I finally put the handles on my Grazing Sheep bag.  The bag was completed in November of 2008 but sat languishing because I didn't like the felted handles I made.  I had the handles pinned into the bag, but never liked them enough to sew them in.  So, in April of last year (or maybe it was the year before) , I bought some leather handles at Stitches South.  I brought them home and put them in the bag and there they have sat since then.  Last week, when I moved everything I saw them again and thought "What a waste!"  So, this afternoon, while on Skype with Dena, I sewed the darn things onto the bag.  It's lovely!

And then I stuffed it with sock yarn and my Eclectic Sole book and went off to sit in the car (with the dog) and knit and wait for the Divine Miss M to come out of rehearsal.  The bag is great.  Unfortunately the purple sock yarn had some bad spots and I lost a bunch of it - but there is enough left to make anklets and that's what the Divine Miss M prefers, so that just became her yarn.

3 comments:

Lace-lovin' Librarian ~ Diane said...

I love your bag! At last, the handles are on, and now you can really enjoy it. I hope you have lots of fun using it!

Corina said...

Great bag!

Tattingrid said...

You can be proud of yourself! Another project finished! And the result is great. Doesn't that give a lot of satisfaction too: finishing something that has been waiting for such a long time and turn out so well?? What more do you have on your "to-finish" list??
And you know where you can find nice handles: the dumpstore! Look for old bags and you'll be amazed what a nice handles there are available for almost nothing... (oh, now you know, that's so me, the Dutch girl..)