I took my good friend Mary Ann to visit a local yarn shop today. She's a fairly new knitter and has made many wonderfully creative scarves and purses. Anyways, she had never visited the shop and me, being an ambassador for the art of knitting, took her for a visit. Well guess what happened? She got a lot of good ideas and because she's more disciplined than I am she didn't buy any yarn. Wants to wait until she finishes her other projects. Imagine that!
I, on the other hand, walked out with 14 skeins of yarn and a pattern for the Bucket Bag by Two Old Bags. I picked up six of Ironstone Yarns Colorchanges in Ocean (color 135) and will run it with Lamb's Pride Worsted in Iced Jade - bought three of these. This bag starts out at the bottom, with DPNs. Since you may know that I can't stand to be around DPNs my good friend Lee (the queen of charity knitting) is going to start it for me. When she gets to the point where a circular will work I'll take it from there. It's great to have talented friends! I've heard that this is a pretty popular pattern - have any of you done it? Or know anyone that has? I want to make a Bucket Bag Album here on my site with pictures of it done in different yarns. Send me a picture or two by email and I'll include it. If anyone in my area wants to do a knit a long let me know - it would be fun.
Next post I'll show the absolutely gorgeous Alp Premier yarn by Feza I also got on the trip. Let me knit up a swatch or two first.
