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New pleated purse!

21 June 2012

I try to knit every day. It’s how I relax while watching TV and I love that I’m creating something as I relax. Sometimes I blog here about what I’m working on (or have completed), but it’s been awhile.

That’s partly because I have been working on the same shawl forever. It’s the Stripe Study Shawl and I think it’s going to be amazing when I’m through with it. It’s just been taking awhile because it’s boring knitting and I can only do so much at a time. I’m on the last inch of the border, though. Once it’s finished and blocked (shaped), I’ll post a photo.

I did sneak in a quick felted bag that I finished this week. It’s the Pleats Purse I, knitted version from Josephine Woo. It’s a small felted bag that uses an innovative technique to create pleats. And it also uses a cast on I’d never tried, so it was a nice learning experience. Here’s a photo:

I used Cascade 220 yarn (less than two skeins) and leather Asian Trends handles (15.7 inches), which I stitched on after the felting using two strands of embroidery thread.

I think it’s a little hard to tell from the picture, but the bag’s pretty small. In particular, the opening’s pretty small. I think it would make a nice knitting bag for a small project, like socks. I’m not sure what I’ll do with it, but I think it’s pretty and I enjoyed making it!

This summer, I’m hoping to finish seaming the mitered square baby blanket I started ages ago and also make some progress on the i-cord edging of the big Learn to Knit Afghan I started in (gulp) 2005. I seamed it in 2009 and it’s been awaiting this edging ever since.

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