Knitting Bag Envy!

If you are like me, you probably throw your knitting or crochet projects in the first empty bag with handles that you can find before you take off for the long wait in the doctor's office, train station, or wherever you know you will have non-productive time on your hands. I was okay with that, even when the bag would wear out and tear (usually as I try to quickly stuff the project back in at some inconvenient time). I was okay, that is, until I was at the fabric store, and saw this suave, confident-looking, woman carrying a beautifully made bag of marvelous prints and colours. For a moment I was seeing green - I wanted that bag. The inner voice took over, "Dummy! You're in a fabric store and you can sew, what's your problem?"

Patterns were 5 for a dollar! I found the one I wanted, spent more time than I intended finding the prints and colours I desired, shopped for buttons, and interfacing, went home and got to work. The result was so beautiful that I had to show off my new bag to everyone. Then I found a problem - the bag only holds one project. So, I've started a new, bigger, and better bag! It was about that time that I realized that I "need" a bag for my sketchbooks and drawing stuff. That is my next project after the newer, bigger, knitting bag.

This is a McCall's pattern, M6409, the bag comes in three sizes (now that I think of it, I should make the small one for my tatting).

Do you see the stripped bag on the pattern to the right? I made that one for grocery shopping; that bag has soda-bottle size holders on either side. I don't have a photo to show you but it is so pretty that the baggers at the checkout stand actually treat my groceries with respect and "arrange" the items within the bag. They love to put the loaves of french bread or baguettes into the side pockets. (McCall's M6297)

I bought 2 more bag patterns today - 5 for $5.00 - the only time I buy patterns!; this time they are Butterick patterns and one is a diaper/changing bag (my daughter is about to give birth to my 3rd grandchild! Gotta have a diaper bag). My mother hated Butterick patterns, and I have lived in fear of them since I was a child, no doubt her spirit is scowling at me now. But fear is a thing to overcome, and I bought the patterns anyway. What? You need a diaper/changing bag? Butterick B5833, check it out!

So, there you have it - digging around in all this old stuff is rekindling my obsessive "gotta make that" behavior. I can no longer get on my Mom's case about her hoarding, except I still can't get over the jars and jars of screws she kept.