CPH Update and market bag #4

Sleeves are moving along. The hood is finished as well as the button band. I have the shoulders sewn together. Once the sleeves are finished, it's all about the seaming and then learning to put in a zipper. :-)



4th market bag complete. Friends are snatching them up as quickly as I can make them. The next one's for me........ I think.

Tawashi

I've been seeing these in Ravelry and really liked this one by Rhonda K. White.

In honor of Earth Day (thanks Kathy for the title)

Two more market bags already living in their new homes.

Plastic or Paper?

When I remember to get them out of my trunk I've been trying to bring bags with me to the grocery store.

The other day I was looking at my giant basket of dishcloth yarn and thinking what can I do with all this other than making dishcloths with it. I went to Ravelry (where else) and put in Sugar N Cream and started looking at what everyone was doing with it. I found market bags. Great idea for me. I could use up the dishcloth yarn on something so useful. I found a bunch and sent all my possibles to a friend and this is the one she was going to try out. That helped me decide so here's the first of hopefully many. It took a full skein of the large ball of Lion Cotton and I did make it a bit shorter than the pattern called for but I knew it would stretch out.

(Sarah, do ya want one?)


Here are some of the other patterns I'm hoping to try out:

http://www.purlbee.com/elisa-nest-tote/

Ravelry link if you want to see others of the same bag http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/elisas-nest-tote

http://dorkybestfriend.typepad.com/blog/2007/03/the_string_bag.html

Ravelry link if you want to see others of the same bag http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/the-string-bag

http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/saturday-market-bag

http://knittymcyarnpants.blogspot.com/2008/04/sarahs-market-bag.html

Ravelry link if you want to see others of the same bag http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/sarahs-market-bag/people

http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEsummer07/PATTeverlasting.html

Ravelry link if you want to see others of the same bag http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/everlasting-bagstopper/people

http://cache.lionbrand.com/patterns/BK4K-0702003.html?noImages=

Ravelry link if you want to see others of the same bag http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/eco-friendly-expandable-shopping-bag

http://www.knittingdaily.com/freepatterns/bags/Market_Bag_Knitting_Pattern70-1.html

Ravelry link if you want to see others of the same bag http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/market-bag

Favorite Color Swap

WOW is all I can say. Chris sent the most amazing things and said in the note that he wanted to keep it all himself. I'm sure glad he didn't. First, chocolate licorice......oh yum. I couldn't wait to taste it but had to take a picture first. Two bars of Dagoba chocolate. If you ever see them, you have to try them. I've had the lavender before but never the mint. Again, yummmmmmmmm. Malibrigo yarn - it's so funny, I've been seeing it on blogs all over the place lately. I checked it out online and found a store nearby that sold it. I've gone to that store twice this week and it's been closed due to an illness in the family. And now I have some in the most perfect colors. It is as soft and nice as everyone says. He also sent personalized stationary, Knitpicks DPN's, cucumber/melon hand lotion, a cucumber candle (one of my favorite scents), three skeins of bamboozle yarn in the prettiest purple and blue, and last but not least a crafty alien hedgehog kit. I have never seen those and I can't wait to make him. Chris, you outdid yourself!!! Thank you so much!!!!

Diamonds & Lace Fingertip Towel

This was supposed to be tapered at the top with a button but I decided to make it flat. I just love the scalloped edge. Pattern here.