Masa bag completed!

 Look at that. This new bag was inspired by the beautiful "Masa Bag" shown in this post. I had scraps lying everywhere. Tiny balls of yarn I couldn't think of anything to do with. So I bunged them all into this bag. And here it is in all it's glory...

 

Colour resolution is not too wonderful, but I'm very happy with the way it turned out. Such a simple project, it took about 5 hours altogether, mostly because I had to measure as I went along, to be sure I didn't mess it up!

I hope you make one for yourself; I've already received orders for more.

Have a good week all.

Busy hands, Happy thoughts

So, I've been a bit busy this last week. A veritable convulsion of creativity has stopped me from posting anything yet, but I will try to be a bit more consistent next week.

Here's my progress so far...

I decided that my journal/idea book would have to be pimped this year, seeing that I am going to be running 2 blogs, with one dedicated solely to my harebrained craft efforts.

So I dug out an old piece of damask left over from tying a head scarf that looked something like this...

and I ended up not only covering the book, but I got a sweet new bookmark too! I love reading, and this way I will never lose my place again!

When I got tired of faffing around with my Uhu stick, I took an hour off to crochet this cap/snood/lacy beret from a pattern I got off crochetme.com.

And that's all my news for now.

P.S. I've decided the book looks much too nice to be used as an idea book, so I got another and will now use this as a...diary? Memory-keeper? Thing on top shelf I love to admire? Not sure yet.

I'll keep you posted, anyways.

New year, new bag

Happy New Year to you all!

This is the first of this year's many (hopefully!) big reveals.

This is what I was stitching together when the clock struck midnight at the birth of 2012.

Actually I was working on the straps.

I designed the entire thing from top to bottom, because I couldn't bear seeing all those hexagons lying around the place, plus I needed a new weekend bag to go with my omnipresent denims!

Hope you have a delightful, colourful, creative year, because I am going to!

its pretty simple and does not need any fancy instructions or tutorials. I used 18 hexagons, in 3 rows of 6 hexagons each. It took 1 1/2 balls of black yarn for edging, seaming and making the handles. The balls come in 50grams each, and its pure acrylic yarn, which I killed afterwards. The bag now lies flat and silky, and is great for tooling around town on weekends!

Enjoy.