Wool For Brains

This is another prototype bag, it’s not perfect but I learned a lot from doing it. I preferred this strap to making inkle braid, it’s just a strip from the width of the fabric backed with some quilting fabric although next time I would make it a bit thinner. The zip was a good idea (it stops your socks from falling out) but next time I’d use a 14″ rather than the 8″ I used here and extend the zip down the side of the bag. It’s the right size for a sock bag, it could maybe have done with being a bit bigger but as the piece of fabric I had was 28″ long then 14″ seemed a good length to start with. The whole thing would work better with a thinner fabric, there is a lot of bulk in those seams, and maybe this fabric would be better with something less structured. It’s given me a whole new set of things to think about while I’m washing the dishes.

The socks that were in the bag are now finished, they grew on me during the knitting and I decided to leave them in their original colour. The colours didn’t do anything unpleasant (they wouldn’t dare, I dyed them) and they weren’t as strident as I remembered them. These are 72 stitch husband-socks with a waffle cuff and flap and gusset heel. I knitted both of these at the same time and the gusset decreases on one represent the time spent waiting for the police and the boarding up service to arrive. I don’t dislike them as much as you might think but I’m still glad that they aren’t for me.

I have some lace blocking and the last two dog blanket strips drying but what I don’t have right now is any actual knitting. Time to rummage in the yarn drawer I think.