paid to knit! well, almost...
But I do get free yarn! Sorta. One of my co-workers (who has great taste) had been admiring a felted Noro bag she saw, and asked if I could make something like that. Never having made a bag before, and definitely never felting anything before, I said sure. It can't be that hard, right? Another of my co-workers, who really is a knitting library, brought in some basic felting books for me to borrow. I have some studying and experimenting to do.
Out of all the Kureyon colorways I gave Dianne to choose from, she picked a beautiful one with reds, purples, and maybe a hint of blue. I found a great 10 skein deal on Ebay, and convinced her I could make a neat multi-directional scarf with any leftovers.
While knit-blog surfing a couple days ago, I ran across a beautiful knitted wrap on treschicVeronique's site, in the same Noro Kureyon colorway Dianne picked, #124. It looks beautiful, bright, and vivid all knitted up.
Next, Di needed to pick a bag style.. I gave her a great selection of Black Sheep bags to choose from. Being that Dianne has excellent taste, of course she picked the right one.
I'm going to try to talk the boyfriend into going to the yarn store with me today to pick up the pattern. It calls for 3 skeins of Cascade 220, which means about six skeins of the noro, so there should be plenty of leftovers for the scarf and a practice felted swatch.
Comments
OOhhh, this bag looks fun. And with Noro... I am going to check back in to see how this turns out! She did pick a good one... I may have to pick that up myself.
Posted by: Nanimal | March 27, 2006 09:16 AM