Knitting Dragonflies

Thanks to everyone that gave me advice and ideas about my sadly felted purse. I now know a lot more about felting. See the comments of my felting post. Good tip from A Bag of Olives , "the piece USUALLY (but not always) shortens lengthwise about 30% more than width-wise." My husband is a drummer and plays in a percussion ensemble. They were playing that night and as were walking out he looks at my bag and says "are you making me a stick bag ?", well, you know any good spouse who needs to stall for time repeats the question "making you a stick bag"? And the light bulb went off above my head. {For anyone that doesn't know this is kind of a purse for your drum sticks and other drumming items.} Husband "and it matches my drums!" Giggles from me at this point, I love it when good karma comes back to me! My pitiful bag was to become a one of a kind accidental "stick bag", thanks to Spin, Knit and Life who gave me the advice to refelt an

I've never felted a purse before, but I found out how fun it is! I used the Retro Bag by Shelly pattern , it was easy and well written. I did make it larger. I used a purse zipper, that I found at JoAnns, it is convenient. Two zips that close in the center. My next felted bag is the Kelly Bag Pattern, available in a free PDF here , from JCasa Handmade , check out her other patterns! She blogs here . I had some leftover Malabrigo yarn , and found some multicolor to match it. It looks camo here, but I didn't realize that until I started knitting. This pattern looks adorable and fast. Can't wait to see the results. Until later, check out some felted bag patterns and try one!! Here is a load of free felted patterns of all kinds, at Knittychick! May your needles fly as fast as Dragonflies.... Technorati Tags: felted bag pattern links , kelly bag knitted pattern link , knittychick , jcasa handmade knitted felted bag pattern link