I’m teaching a hand sewing class at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education next semester. It’s once a week for 6 weeks, and we’re going to make several small bags. I’m very excited. It should be great fun. If you want more info about the class, it’s under fiber arts at .
Here are my latest two projects.
Tammy!
Nothing really new here in terms of lessons learned. I can’t tell you how much I enjoy knitting these. The wool I bought last fall on a shopping trip to Webs in Northampton with Kirti. If anyone wants to learn how to knit these, let me know. They are definitely in the category of “easier than it looks.”
And one crazy bag.
I love leftover projects. I started with wool that was left over from my mom’s steeked cardigan. I knit a rectangle in the two blues and then added the white stripes with a crochet hook. Then it went in Wendi’s washing machine while we watched the War. The corduroy is leftover from a skirt project. I cut it really close with this one (pun not intended - “he who would pun would pick a pocket”). The direction of some of the wales is not what I intended because I didn’t have enough to cut it the way I wanted. The lining is a very nice khaki, bought for a different project that never happened. This was my first attempt at inserting a snap. It went well, although next time I will probably try to do the hammering later in the day. I did this one at 9:00 AM on a Saturday and the other people in my building tend to be late night people. Can I help it if I’m a morning person?
I probably won’t post much for a few weeks as I’m now concentrating on Christmas presents and I don’t want to give any surprises away.
Happy Thanksgiving!