Green and Blue Sweetheart Bag
Finished
September 15, 2015
April 30, 2021

Green and Blue Sweetheart Bag

Project info
Sweetheart Bag by Donna Kay
Knitting
BagDrawstring
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Needles & yarn
US 2 - 2.75 mm
31 stitches and 35 rows = 4 inches
in Blocked bag chart
215 yards = 1.75 skeins
Hélène Magnusson Yarns Grýla Tvíband
6 yards in stash
0.75 skeins = 92.3 yards (84.4 meters), 18 grams
Yellow
The Wool Box
Hélène Magnusson Yarns Grýla Tvíband
none left in stash
1 skein = 123.0 yards (112.5 meters), 25 grams
Blue
The Wool Box
Notes

09-15-2015

It’s larger than I imagined from the picture although the measurement of the top of the bag is appx. 6-1/2” so it should be right with the pattern measurements at the end. With this yarn the top edge has a much more dramatic scallop (which I like).

09-10-2016

Looked at this after the summer knitting pause and decided to frog it because I can’t think of how I will really use it. I already have a zillion project bags and I won’t carry it as a purse…meh, think I’ll make a hat or something with this yarn.

04-28-2021 - Not actually frogged! Restarting after 5 years…

So this was still in it’s little project bag after 5 years. I never actually frogged it and in the meantime I’ve gotten much better at colorwork (and have the right length needle so I don’t have to struggle through with magic loop). I had finished a lot of other projects and was looking back at UFOs and I found three (this one is the smallest). It’s funny, now that I look at it I think, ‘oh, that’s no problem, I can finish it this week!’ Then I think back to how I felt when I started it and how much of a struggle it was to knit even one row of the two-color pattern.
Luckily, things change so just today I’ve already worked to the halfway mark and look forward to finishing it up sometime this weekend and maybe even putting a lining in it :).

04-30-2021 Fast finish (once I got around to it)

I managed to finish it up in a few day’s spare time after leaving it sitting for 5 years… Thinking of putting a lining in it because this wool is very ‘hairy’ and that way it would make a better bag for gathering herbs or as a project bag.

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by Hélène Magnusson Yarns
Light Fingering
100% Wool, 100% Icelandic
122 yards / 25 grams

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  • Project created: September 15, 2015
  • Updated: April 30, 2021
  • Progress updates: 4 updates