FO: Brea Bag

You can't believe it's finished?! Me either!

It's a delightful pattern. And quick (if you finish things..). I had this done a long time ago, but kept dragging my feet on getting a handle, then lining it. It is my first lined bag. I cut out three pieces of fabric: the front, back, and gusset. I sewed those together, then turned the bag inside out and pinned it in. Then, I whip stitched it in.

I used Berroco Ultra Alpaca (2 skeins), and I love love this yarn. It's soft and beautiful. The pattern is the Brea Bag, a free pattern from Berroco. I got my handle from Webs. My lining was bought from a local quilting store.

Also, my blogging and emailing are slow this week because my laptop died. (I think {hope} it is just the battery/power cord.) So, I finally set up my desktop downstairs, but it's very cold down here!

Some works in progress

Ok, I've finally got some pictures of stuff in progress. Nothing that fantastic, but proof I've been knitting (at least some!).

The beginnings of a Pomatomus sock. This was after I ripped out three different patterns on vacations after I knit practically each sock. My husband was really rolling his eyes about that.

 

A tangled yoke body. I've started on the first sleeve now.

I am off now to order a shower-tub attachment thing.   It attaches to the old claw-foot tubs so you can shower.  It's expensive, but I'm tired of not having one.   Hopefully, I'll have pretty pictures of that in a few weeks!!

In the knitting dumps

I am in the knitting dumps.  I took socks with me on vacation.  I had half a sock knitted in the Drunken Bees pattern by domesticat, and ripped it out because it didn't suit the yarn. (Beautiful pattern, though, but needs a solid colorway.)  Then, I knitted different patterns with my yarn with several false starts.  Finally, I settled on Pomatomus.  I am not even halfway down the leg.  My husband just kept trying to figure out why I kept ripping out these socks - and honestly I don't know why either.  None of them suited me.  I could have had a pair of socks knitted by this time if I would quit frogging what I started.

I am also in the knitting dumps because I'm so tired this week - all I do is sleep when I get home.  I also need to pass a certification in Advanced Pediatric Life Support on November 27th, so I'll be studying, studying, studying from now til then, which cuts into my knitting.

No time or energy for knitting - just puts me in the knitting dumps.

On another note, my cats have been driving me nuts since we got home.  Sam, the one we bottle-fed and is now 6 years old, is our huge baby, and he now stands beside me and cries until I hold him.  I think I traumatized him by leaving so long - even though we had two people coming to the house to check on them twice a day!!

I will be getting some vacation pictures up on Flickr soon hopefully.  And I promise some kitty and knitting pictures soon because I know a pictureless blog is a boring blog!

I'm back...

and here is some eye candy while I rest up.  I promise more pictures later!  This is the view from right outside our villa.

This blog is on vacation...

I will be gone for the next 7-8 days.  I will be soaking up some much needed sunshine down in the British Virgin Islands.

When I come back, I hope to have lots of pretty things to show you!