Large family gatherings are an excellent opportunity to get some knitting done, provided I’m not hosting. Yesterday, we spent many hours at my inlaws’ home. It was very enjoyable, and I made much progress on the Blue Tote. Unfortunately, upon reflection, I should have spent some of that glorious knitting time helping my husband with damage control. Veroncia and one of her young cousins were on one yesterday. They started off in dresses. I think that Veronica ended up going home in the second T-shirt provided by grandpa. Cousin Avery went through many more than that. We actually made efforts to watch them, but they were fast, and determined to get into trouble. After the first incident, (involving a bird bath), Nate washed her up and changed her clothes. After the second incident, (involving a sandbox full of rain water), she got a full on bath, with shampoo and everything, new diaper, and another change of clothes. The third incident left me happily knitting and Nate running around trying to find the little trouble makers. Fourth involved a hose, but fortunately, I caught that one early. Only Avery needed a change of clothes. The fifth incident, (involving the sand box again), necessitated another partial bath but kept the clothes, and was the last straw. We subsequently left. I had contributed to the watching and corralling of the children throughout the afternoon, but had not helped with any of the clean up. My very sweet husband had done it all. I’m sorry honey.
But I DID have a wonderful time knitting. The main bag is finished.
Here are a couple shots to give you an idea of size.
I realize you can’t read the ruler, that is a scale shot. I think it is about 20 inches tall.
That is my shoe, it is a size 9-10. (Also, for the purpose of scale.)
Cool huh? So now I have to knit the marsupial pouch with icord, connect them, and felt felt felt.
May 31st, 2004 at 12:33 pm
You have a new loyal fan. I’m impressed (and Jealous!) Also, Bergan LOVES that he saw Abby on the internet and wants to know why he’s not!
May 31st, 2004 at 10:35 pm
I found your blog recently and just dipped in to ‘catch up’. I LOVE your cabled bag!! Can’t wait to see it felted! It is wonderful to see someone taking a basic pattern and pushing it to another level. Beautiful!!
June 1st, 2004 at 12:10 am
Apologies for not paying attention if you’ve already mentioned this; is the bag a commercial pattern or is it something you designed yourself?
I love it and can’t wait to see it felted.
June 1st, 2004 at 12:17 am
The cabled bag looks beautiful. I can’t wait to see how it looks when it felts. I’ve been wondering about knitting something with textures and seeing how the felting will affect the item.
This morning I had to chase one of my dogs around the house because she had a ball of yarn in her mouth. Oh well, I got my exercise for the day.
June 1st, 2004 at 1:45 am
Thanks for the compliments! Susanna, the bag is loosly based on the Marsupial Tote from the Stitch n B**** book. I’ve changed the size and some of the color instructions, added the cables, and picked new colors.
June 1st, 2004 at 3:55 am
Hi honey,
Your bag is beautiful. What fun to have knitting friends on line.
Love ya
mom
June 1st, 2004 at 10:30 am
WOW! You made loads of progress since I saw it the other night and I’ll be one of the lucky ones to get to see it LIVE!!! It was beautiful when it wasn’t finished, so I can’t wait! BTW- Art’s Mom says thanks for the pretzels! As for Roni’s shenannigan’s, next time you talk about Abner being a trouble maker, I’ll just ask how many times poor Nate had to change his clothes…hee hee hee. Love, Gayle “FYRKRKR” P.S. I picked up another mag with a shawl by Laura Bush, but yours is prettier, but this one is easier, I think.
June 1st, 2004 at 10:39 am
Ooo, let me see!