new project felted bag 001
Originally uploaded by byjane73.

I bought this yarn back in 1992 at a shop in Rolling Hills. I think. Or maybe it was in Lafayette. I saw it and fell in love with it. The grays and browns are so my colors. It was very expensive yarn and I couldn’t afford it. So I made a deal with my sister to front me the money for the yarn for a birthday present. It was so expensive (how expensive could that have been? probably a fraction of what it would be today!) that I didn’t really buy sufficient to make the big woolly cardigan the yarn cried out for.

Instead, I made a Bomber Jacket. It wasn’t a bad sweater; it just didn’t fulfill my fantasy. So I ripped it–or as the coy knitters say, frogged it–and rolled it into balls and it has sat with all the other yarn in my stash that is, for one reason or another, un- or partially-knit.

My weekly knitting nights at Knitique, my lys, have energized me and my success with the felting project has opened a whole new world of knitting to me. Danielle, at Knitique, gave me a great pattern for a felted bag, and I dragged this yarn from the back of the closet.

This is the beginning, the bottom and about 2″ up the sides, of this old yarn in this new project. I feel quite proud of myself for at last using the yarn.