This is the gray Sophie bag, with its handles attached. It is sitting in the mess on #2 daughter’s dresser. Here it was on Knit in Public Day, when I was knitting it in public by the lake.
As for the bag, I made it according to the pattern (I cannot link right now, but there is a link in a post last week and today over at perroua’s xanga), until I came to the part for the handles. At that point, I bound off on the narrow sides of the rectangle, and continued the long sides for another few rows of garter stitch. Then I felted the bag. The garter stitch bands enclose the handles of the bag. I sewed them in with a darning needle and matching yarn.
As for the mess, it is part of summer, I’m afraid. But now, while it is still just in the 80s, I am trying to persuade the kids to get their rooms in some sort of shape. Once we reach the 90s and triple digits, we won’t do anything at all.
I have been amassing stuff for the boys’ room — a computer desk, shelves, and so on — and keeping it in the garage. I want to remix their room (have you seen that TV program?). I have it on good authority that teen boys really want their rooms to look like the inside of a car, so I think we’ll go with that look. But, the boys insist, nothing that looks like a theme.
#2 daughter’s room is nicely decorated, but looks like a pigsty. Or possibly a prehistoric midden.
The theme for the weekend, I think, is cleaning the kids’ rooms.
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I would like to mention to the world at large that my room is not a pigsty. It is rather more like an artistic collection of… things.
that is a neat bag. Beware those kid’s rooms…
Love the handles you picked for the bag! They go well together. I just got out of my kiddo’s room and let me tell you it took a good hour to clean it up! Now I need a piece of chocolate and a cup of tea to wind down! 😀 And I wasn’t fooled by that Chris guy(?) either that you talked about in an earlier post. He (she?) e-mailed me when I was having problems with my Xanga a couple of months ago. Two days later *poof* everything was right with the world again. So no matter what this Chris person has told you, I’m sure it is all Xangas fault and they will soon set it right! 😉 Isn’t html just the most frustrating thing ever!? BTDT 😀
Kay. I had to look up “midden.” Thanks for the vocabulary lesson. Me likey the baggy.
Gadzooks! (sorry couldn’t think of any other word) 🙂 That Sophie incarnation is gorgeous! Oh man…(used to say “man” a lot too) now I have to venture out to search for those awesome handles… the very ones I passed on in favor of the round ones. By the way, I love the mini chinese warrior statues on #2’s dresser.
Middens are lots of fun to play in, especially the prehistoric ones. But then again it’s my job. ::shrug::