Now that the wedding wrap sweaters are off to their forever home and my time is my own again, I’ve started to weave some small bags to use as simple wallets and coin purses, etc. for my Etsy and the gallery. Heaven forbid I get bored, or else I’ll start clawing the furniture. I got some great new ideas from Inventive Weaving on a Little Loom about using bias tape and ribbon to edge woven pieces with, so I figured I’d warp about five or six feet of crochet cotton and weave separate sections of roughly ten inches each to get multiple bags out of one warp. Add a fabric lining and a zipper and that should be a good little holiday gift, or for whenever. I’m back to my weft-faced stress-relief ways, as it should make a more stable bag. It’s a good way to use up stashed yarns, especially different weights and fibers for some interesting textures. No reason not to go a little crazy, especially on such a small item.
Also working on finishing the Veronica cotton top from Sweater Girls. Just in time for…um…winter. It’ll keep. Using Bamboo Pop from Webs, so it’s a brilliant sheen and color and a joy to knit with but very slippery so if you drop a stitch, if you don’t catch it immediately it drops several rows. Nice change of pace from gray stockinette.