Nothing like the psychological boost you get when you finally complete a project, especially something like this. For the first time in a while I get a weekend that is almost completely free, and entirely mine. I decided I would use this time to finish weaving fabric on my loom and make it into a good weekend bag.
I have a 12 inch rigid heddle loom that’s seeing a lot more action now that I ordered a replacement warp hook. You can warp a rigid heddle loom without one, but it’s such a bear that I found myself not using my loom and it was just gathering dust under my desk.
I grabbed some scrap yarn from my stash that I though looked well together and wove a plain weave with a couple of twill rows to intensify the colors to give it a striped look.
Yeah, I forgot I used that darker yarn at the beginning. Becomes a design feature. Contrasting stripe. Yeah. The warp threads are gathered into a fringe at the end that I hid in the lining of the bag.
For the sides and handle of the bag I crocheted a braid and included it on the sides of the bag as I seamed it up. I wanted to make the darker yarn a prominent color in the braid to make that dark stripe look more intentional.
I knew this bag wouldn’t need to match anything else so I just grabbed the first fabric from my stash and used that as the lining. I thought about hauling my sewing machine out from my storage buffet but it’s such a project to set it up for something as minor as this that I just stitched it up by hand.
The finished bag ended up about 12 inches by 10. Perfect size for running weekend errands.