** New Techniques to be learned! **
-- Felting
-- I-Cord

06/03/10 - Casting on twice as many as in the pattern, as from what I’ve read the CO shown in the pattern, when felted, makes a bag that is too small. However, I will be following the 10 row-2 row of colouring.

06/09/10 - The bag has been knitted! Something weird happened during the cast off … so I put it down for a bit and will look at it tomorrow to see what I did if I can fix it. Left to be knitted: I-Cord handles, then the seaming and weaving of ends begins … then dun dun dun the felting!

07/30/10 - Naughty me! The thought of weaving in the ends and felting this scared me to no end! What if I “felted” it wrong?
The actual finishing of this project was put off until I moved, but I managed to weave in the 100+ ends, seam it together and felt it! Unfortunately the handles didn’t shrink when they felted like I hoped, but it ended up as a tote-y-project-page-y present for my swapee! I hope she likes it! ^_^