Swapsies

Another post, I have been pretty crafty lately, it feels great finishing lots of things. Although I did do them all in one day haha I am so bad with deadlines. Which is probably why I burned my hand and my dad's t-shirt didn't turn out right. I'm thinking that may have had something to do with it not being heated long enough? I don't know. He is likes it and I think it still looks pretty cool :) And it's the only one in the world, so that is always great!

This post is about the swap I did on Cut Out + Keep. My partner was Knittin' Kitten, we each told our partner symbols and colours etc that we liked and we had to make up to three items, including the personal choices of our partners. KK likes leopard print, vibrant pink, turquoise, roses and black and red.

I came up with the shopping bag first. I found the print on some shared image site and printed that out onto the fabric paper. The buttons I love them, they are so cute. I bought them in the nice knitting shop on Laugavegur.

Uploaded with plasq's Skitch!

Uploaded with plasq's Skitch!

Next I made the ring. The stone is a shell bead. I really like them too, I had to use a thinner wire to go through the bead and then a bigger wire to wrap around the finger part.

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Finally I found lots of scrap cord fabric and a long piece of thick red ribbon and decided to make another bag, but this is a more casual outing bag and smaller too :) As I said in my previous post, I received an early birthday present(it's next month) form my friend up North, I got lots of crafting goodies, some lovely wool, fancy paper and some packets of little rose appliques. The red rose was a perfect accent to the bag, just what it was missing :D

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Uploaded with plasq's Skitch!

So, next on my to-do list, is a present for my godmother. I have a few ideas ;-)

Okay, so I have been very lazy as of late and my main project of making myself that shawl thingy, has kinda halted at the moment! I'm even thinking of ripping it all back, as I have found a really cute hat pattern that uses the same needles and wool!
Also, I needed to make something for my lil sisters birthday(which is tomorrow) so, that has taken up my time.

I knitted her a little shoulder bag, all my own design. I had a main idea in my head and just made it up as I went along. I used two different coloured yarns from the same brand, Alta"glitter" in baby blue and a soft pink. Really pretty colour combos if you ask me :D
So, I knit it up, attatched the strap and added some buttons on the front of the flap for decoration and to disguise where the colours meet hehe
I really love how it turned out and know my lil sis will too. I am knitting a small coin purse out of the remainder of the pink yarn and am gonna try to get some more blue tomorrow to finish that off and then post them on Monday.
So, anyway heres the pics.
K
post-blocking/pre-seaming
close up of strap feature



I added a lining just to lessen the stress on the base
my "designer name" lol
And finally, the back of the bag