…besides the loose bottom.

Pattern: Sophia Carry All
The wallet is improvised.
Fabric: Orly
Time Taken: 4 days

I’m not happy with it really. I still love the bag and pattern but I made a mistake on the zip so it sticks and I don’t fancy ripping it all out again now. I used a water proof membrane instead of fusible fleece.

If I were to make this bag again I would make the straps a few inches longer so it could fit on my shoulder. I’d try harder to find the right zip and I’d also match the handles better. (One handle has a lot more white). Oh and I wouldn’t have bothered with the water proofing layer.  It was a good idea until it came to fitting the zip.

It’s going to be an everyday bag rather than a weekend bag. No way I could fit a weekends worth of stuff in there haha!

I’ve named it Sepia. What? You don’t name your bags? n___n

Uk Swap Question Week 4

Quick fire questions this week, based on a game I’ve played with friends whilst on (very long) car journeys!
Choose one – don’t think just choose…
1. Stop or go? Go
2. Going out or Staying in? Out
3. Small town or big city? City
4. Happy or sad? Happy!
5. Straights or Circulars? Circulars
6. Red or Blue? Blue
7. Seaside or countryside? Seaside
8. Fish or chips? Fish
9. Surprises or plans? Surprises
10. Wine or beer? Wine
11. Sweaters or cardigans? Cardigans
12. Pizza or Pasta? Pasta
13. Chopsticks or fork? Fork
14. Early Bird or Night Owl? Night Owl
15. Knitting or crochet? Knitting
16. Hot or cold? Hot

And now for the picture part of this quiz (copied from a meme that’s going around at the moment)
a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
b. Using only the first page, pick an image
c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd’s mosaic maker.

1. Go Green!!!, 2. Hold me close, under the sunset, 3. Spark City, 4. don’t worry be happy new year, 5. Circular Staircase at the Lighthouse, Glasgow, 6. Blue Sky and Clouds, 7. seaside bathroom, 8. Fish out of water, 9. cactus surprises!!! xoxo ^-^/, 10. Wine glasses, 11. Trellis Cardigan, 12. ,,,blue pasta, 13. not a fork, 14. the night of the owls, 15. Blueberry, Ms. Darcy’s Knitted Cupcakes, 16. too darn hot

It wasn’t fun making that (too much copying and pasting but I love the photos!

Hope you all had a great weekend!

I received my swap package from Ann of the Great Bootie Swap. Fun fun. It contained a lovely skein of Enigma yarn:

Lovely Colours

stitch markers and of course the booties!! They look huge next to my newborn ones haha. must take a comparrison shot. I was planning to give them away but I think I will keep them. I love the oriental style beads on the stitch markers too. Never can have too many of those. Yesterday my sister asked what’s the point in making stitch markers pretty if they don’t get left in the piece. Bless! She just doesn’t get it. I think she prolly will at some point the hording habit comes from all sides of the family.

I also made my first button hole! With my moms guidance via webcam. I always thought they’d be really difficult but they really weren’t. I don’t have any photos for you as I did them on scrap that I just threw away but I got a bit button hole.

I also entered a pair of my booties in the Micheal Miller Baby Bootie Contest. Not sure if I classify with my knitted version but I entered any way. Wish me luck!