knitting in squares.

Here's a preview of the new bag I am working on:


I am using the intarsia technique to create 5 x 5 st squares in lime green on the front and back of this blue tote. When I am done it will be felted and the stitches will not show, but the pattern will. I am hoping to do 6 rows of 5 squares, but thinking I may quit at 3!

It was hard to get used to this technique at first, and the yarn gets all twisted up which is a pain, but I am beginning to like it more and more and can't wait for the end results! I have been thinking about making a felted bag like this for awhile and even if it takes me all summer to construct, I am glad to be bringing it to life.

More pictures as it takes shape. It's sort of shapeless now.

shoulder style.

Here are some photos of my newest bag -- an orange felted shoulder tote. Handknit, felted and ready-to-wear. I will be putting it up for sale before I get too attached to it. In the mean time, any takers?


$45.

april showers...

i'm excited because:

-after eight long months i finally have the internet at my house! as my friend briana put it, i could have had a baby!

-also, it is almost summer! even thought it doesn't feel like it. cold, wet, windy, dark. well... almost.

-i got a new digital camera. i used it to photograph my other new camera. see...


-i have been reading lots of good books. join me on goodreads.com.

-i have also felted a new bag (pictures soon!) and a cute, short but sweet scarf. I am about to start stitching this tee.




that's all for now. isn't it enough??

when i'm not knitting i'm reading.

I was excited when I spotted this book in the store:


not so much for the stories, but for the cover. It is an image by one of my favorite photographers and aib teacher Cig Harvey. Take a look at her work online. You, too, will be enthralled.