Wednesday, June 04, 2003

Finished the "Hippy Bag" out of JCA's "Dance" chunky cotton last night. This is the one I started the one day I was called in for jury duty, and it had sat in my bag for a couple of weeks.

I hope this doesn't jinx me and get me called in for more jury duty, now that my "big wooden needles, see I'm not a dangerous person knitter" project is done. (Well, I have big plastic needles and the JCA "Cinema" to make a dressy scarf out of, so I can take that. Or my big Pony Pearls and the yarn for a headscarf.)

The bag is...interesting. Not sure if it's something I'd actually carry, it's too small for my wallet. It would work for keys and maybe a money clip with a few bucks in it. It actually resembles one of the old-fashioned "reticules" in shape - but it's a chunky knit, so I guess that's where the "hippy" comes in.

I used the color called "Jig" - a mottled grey green. (One of the things I love about Artful Yarns are the creative color names they give to their yarns, and it annoys me when some officious catalog writer decides that their own description of the name suits the yarn better. I'd rather buy a yarn called, say "George Bailey" than buy a "mottled blue railroad ribbon". But maybe that's just me.)

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