D Bag

Okay, so the name sounds a bit silly, but my daughter likes it :-) This is one of my rare attempts at creating something out of my imagination. I have to say that I'm pretty proud of how it turned out. The entire bag was made with Lion Wool using a US 11 circular needle. The straps are I-cords, and instead of doing a flat seam, I did an "X" seam on the bottom. I'm quite sure there's some technical name for it, or technique, but the idea to do this seam, like the entire bag, came out of my head.

I'm not qure sure why the pics didn't post in the order I had wanted them to, but oh well. The bottom left pic is the bag pre-felting, and the other two are post-felting. The "X" seam and sewn-in loopy tapes I did enables the bag to lie nice and tidy when I want it to be, and to open up (for use as a shopping bag?) nice and wide as you can see in the pic on the bottom right. I think it looks a little like a flower basket. I used a variegated wool for the main part, and a solid for the top edging and handles. I wish now I had felted it right after I took the pre-felting pic; the lighting is different and it's kind of hard to see. I'm considering selling the pattern, but I'm not sure how to go about doing that, yet.

So...this is my last UFO; or I guess maybe it's not. While I had D Bag felting in the washing machine, I started a poncho for my youngest daughter. (She asked me so nicely to make her something next.) I'm making it in a pretty tropical blue variegated cotton on US 11 straight needles. I'm not using a pattern, so it will be interesting to see how it turns out.