I got this very pretty bag when I bought cosmetics.
And one fine day I received an email from KnitPicks saying that I would get these items free if I ordered a certain $ amount of other things.
Who can resist "Free"?? (Not me apparently!)
But the big dilemma was this: I didn't know what to do with these things because I don't have a knitting bag that doesn't already have all the little knitting accessories already in it.
What to do. What to do.
Aha! I can make myself another knitting bag! Dilemma solved!
Now just for the sewing.
I had fabric on hand because for years I have been planning on making myself aprons. You know the kind like everyone's gramma used to wear? Well, that fabric became a knitting bag instead of aprons! Although, I do have fabric left over. I could still come up with some form of apron from that...hmm.
Anyway! Back to the knitting bag.
I wanted this bag to be cozy and so decided to quilt the fabric together.
I also intended to take step by step pictures but that didn't happen! These are it.
But here is the finished product.
I added lots of pockets and a zipper to keep everything safely inside.
We won't talk about how much trouble that zipper was to install. Or how long it took to put the rick rack on. Or that it actually took me 2 afternoons and 2 evenings to make the whole bag. Yikes!
I'm going to forget all that and enjoy my new knitting bag.
That started with all those "free" things!
side note...I am compulsive but it is purely coincidence that the fabric on the front of the bag matches the back. I honestly didn't plan it that way. Nothing that I plan works out THAT good!
2nd side note....you can tell the front from the back by the color of the buttons on the handles.
