I Love Felting

It started out looking like this... Here is the cabled pocket I added to the design. It came out nice when it felted, the cables are all soft and pretty.
This is the bag seamed but not felted yet. (It looks really big.) I think I did go up a needle size or two from the orig pattern directions.

And here it is felted and ready to be lined. I love the stripey lining, feels very retro to me (Jo-Ann's). Also the gray is a lot lighter in person, the picts are showing a dark gray. The cording is for around the top to re-inforce the handle and such. When the lininng is in, I'll show the finished picee. I'm off to try and get that done now.

My First Comment

Much and many thanks to Keppy at Knitting is Funner than Cleaning for posting the first commment I've had on my blog. Thanks, thanks, thanks. Check her out, she's good.

Sock Help!!!

I'm trying to find some basic worsted wool socks, for me and am getting lost in the jungle and tangle of the vast variety of socks out there in the world. I tried some (see last previous), and they came out way too small for me, but will fit the small one so there was no wasted knitting time. However, if there's anybody reading this, please, please send me some basic sock patterns that I can try. Thanks to who ever may be reading this.

Ribbbet...

Alas, my poor socks. I finished the cuff, did the heel and turned the heel and then really looked at my little sock--it was too small. That sock wouldn't have fit my small one. Ah the frogs came out to play last night.

Finished

Yeah!!
I finished mybag. I still need to felt it, so I guess I'm not technically done, but I feel better that I've completed something of my WIP's.

Will post the picts of the before's and after's when I figure out how my camera works a little bit better.
Yeah, yeah, yeah!!! (Dancing with joy over something completed:)

Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday...

...a four day marathon of non-stop activity...
Friday -- volunteer at school all morning, shop and clean house for Saturday (see Saturday).
Saturday -- woke up early, fed small ones, walked dog, made forty (yes 40!!!) egg rolls for Chinese Mardi Gras party that evening. (you know to celebrate the Chinese New Year and Mardi Gras--the year of the pig)
Big child picked up for school activity on Sat. morn, left wee one with dad all day.
Went to church festival from 11:00 a.m. until 5:45 p.m. when I got home.
Chinese Mardi Gras party scheduled to start at 6:00 p.m. As I am getting out of shower, doorbell rings, dog barks and people arrive. Oh, yeah, the parental units (aka G-parents) visiting as well-- grandma needs her grandchild fix.
Party goes well into the night (11:30 p.m.) that's late enough for me. Boggle competition keeps us going until the small hours of the night. (yes, we're geeks who love Boggle) I don't like the on-line version though, it's more of a challenge to play the original version. (Great for your 7 to 8 yr old's spelling comprehension.)
Sunday -- get up early to go to church, then brunch with G-parents. Then baseball at the park for big child with his friends (sort of like spring training for them), wee one played on the slide. Send G-parents on their way back home and can finally veg. Had all intents and purposes to finish one of the handbag projects to get ready for felting today (Mon.) -- never happened.
Monday -- President's Day -- everywhere except here in the Desert SW -- we have Rodeo Days this weekend, so school for the big one and for me the re-claiming of my house, i.e. laundry, cleaning bathrooms, vacuuming...
...maybe tonight I'll be able to sit down and knit...

As I Eat My Lunch

As I fed the small one, and sat down to "work" (yeah, right), and eat my lunch, I stumbled across the Knitting Blogs. Great, great place to see some new reads and get an idea of who's out there too!

Oh, lunch is tortilla chips and hubby's cream chees poblano dip. Yummy!!!!