Unlike most women, I am not infatuated with accessories such as bags, shoes, jewelry, and so on. When my four-year-old inexpensive handbag began to fall apart, I decided that rather than buying one, I would crochet one.
Then I hurt my elbow and shoulder when I picked up my dog (He only weighs 20 pounds.) to remove him from the path of a car, and I haven't been able to crochet.
So, I decided to knit a bag. I would use less yarn doing that, anyway.
I knew which colors I wanted, but I didn't know exactly how I would make it. I bought hot green, hot yellow, hot blue, robin's egg, and white Lily Sugar 'n Cream yarn, experimented with a few stitch patterns, and decided on double strands of yarn in seed stitch. I decided on the striping as I knitted.
At first I was going to make it flat, but then decided to add sides and a bottom and attach the strap to the sides.
I found a pattern for making starfish when I was almost finished and decided they would make a cool appliqué and then adapted the pattern to make palm trees for the other side.
Keeping with the palm tree them, I lined it with palm tree fabric and used a magnetic sew-on snap as a closure.
I've always followed patterns rather than designing my own, so I'm kind of psyched about my first ever original.
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