Since I had so much wool left over from the entrelac bag I decided to use it to make a smaller felted bag. My friend Melissa is a beginner knitter who would also be sharing a bus with 35 teenagers during our youth choir tour in New Mexico. She wanted an easy project to work on during the long bus rides. I turned to trusty Google and found “A Little Bird Told Me” over at knitty.com. I decided this would also be a great pattern to use up the left over wool.
However, when I started knitting, I soon became apparent that I didn’t have as much left over as I thought. I used up what was almost a whole ball of Wool of the Andes Spruce and realized that unless I wanted my bag to look like Joseph’s coat of many colors, which I do not, I was going to have to order more yarn. I bopped over to Knit Picks and ordered a couple balls of Spruce and moved on to something else. The yarn came yesterday so I can finish my bag and get it felted. I’m not sure if it will be all one piece or if I have enough of one leftover to make the flap and strap a different color. We’ll see.
One change I am going to make is the flap decoration. Instead of embroidery, I am going to make a felted flower and pin it on. The felted flower will be made from leftover entrelac yarn since I know they all go with Spruce! Below is the WIP photo. The photo makes the yarn look almost navy but it is really more of a blue/green color.
