It's done!

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I wound up washing it twice because the first wash made it the size I wanted, but didn't felt it well. I tried a little hand felting and then blocking it, but, eh. So I added the button and the flowers and then washed it again, hot/cold heavy wash, extra rinse.

It looks much better, but it's smaller than I was hoping for. So instead of being my carry-on next month, it's going to be my camera bag. It's a good size for it.

I don't know if I love how the flowers chubbed out in the wash, but it could have been *so* much worse. I think for a first attempt I am going to call this a success.

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Last March ... maybe last September, honestly ... my mom and I were buying yarn. And I found this AMAZING, lovely, beautiful, felting yarn.

There were only two skeins left. They were DEEPLY discounted. I believe the store was not going to carry them any longer. I bought them. I started knitting a bag. I got halfway through the bag and realized I had not enough yarn.

So I frogged it. It sat. And became nothing.

I found a new!bag pattern  (Ravelry link, sign-in required) that *should* work.

And I realized today that...no. Not. Enough. Yarn.

Well, we had to go to Joann's today, and I figured, what the hell, maybe I'll check to see if MAYBE they have my yarn.

I bought three skeins, because it is apparently a RATHER COMMON YARN. OMG.

Bernat, Felting Natural Wool, 94012 Meadow


PART TWO