Idyllic Chick

I completed my first felted project last night. I wanted a small tote bag in which to carry my diet pop and can of ravioli to work each day. I loved the Mini Skull Tote, but as written it was just a bit too small for me. But I liked the proportions, so I calculated a new pattern using the same ratio throughout. Worked out fine and dandy! This was also my first intarsia project. I thought that was a good idea since all of the nasty carry overs in the back would felt in.

When I realized that I would run out of blue yarn (Manos del Uruguay. The off-white is as well.) I planned on finding some black Manos to finish up, but being impatient as I am, I picked up some similar yarn in pink at Yarnwerks. Once I started knitting it in, I thought it looked like crap. Black would have weighed the bottom of the bag down, and this pink ain't weighing nothing. But I was in 'fuck it' mode, as I had frogged much of the bag a couple of times already. I figured if this one turned out like crap, I could always make another one in different colors. Finished seaming it up last night and threw it in the washer. Voila! Felting is way cool!