Project Bags

I am a huge fan of the KnitGirllls podcast. Laura (aka LaLa) and Leslie (aka udontcallmeles) are so down to earth and honest about their knitting successes and failures,  and their lives that it has really given me a good perspective on my own knitting life/obsessesion. When I discovered the podcast, I took a few weeks and watched all the old episodes so I would be up to date with them. One of the etsy shops that they loved was Piddleloop project bags. I put one on my Christmas list based on their recommendations. I'm not saying that its not cute, cause it is but as you can see from my hand in the picture below, its rather small. I can fit a  2-50 gr balls of yarn and a sock on DPN's wip inside it. That is fine for a pair of socks but the cost was $23. The constuction is nice. It's lined and has some interfacing for support. There's a zipper and the handles are ribbon but....$23?

So I went online and found a pattern for a similar bag and for a drawstring bag (which I did wrong but who cares, and another bag that is longer) that uses just under 2 fat quarters. I paid $.99 each for the fat quarters and the zippers I have on hand from when JoAnn's Fabrics moved their store a couple years ago, I think I paid like $.50 ea for them. Now that I know how simple it is to make the project bags, I don't think I'll buy them again. I'll get some pictures of the bags I made to post soon.

Also for Christmas I asked for a couple books that I will review as soon as I have had the chance to really look at them. One is a book of knitting stitches that is awesome, and the other is of baby knits. I'll try something in there for the new great nephew coming any day.

That's what I have to share for today. Happy Knitting!!