The Fair Isle bag

I'm on a roll....




Here's the completed Annie Meadows Bag, done in Debbie Bliss Cathay yarn.

The first series of classes for this bag is just about finished and a new session will be starting July 16th (Wednesday's 11-1) for anyone interested in giving two-stranded knitting a try - no prior experience required, just a knowledge of both knit and purl stitches and a willingness to try something a little outside the box!

Yours in knitting,
Claire

Lucy Bag in ribbon

Happy Easter!

Shirani had the great idea to do the Lucy Bag up in ribbon. Hers is a beautiful combination of blues and greens: spring fresh and perfect for today. Mine, not surprisingly, morphed into my typical greens, reds, & golds. Not very springlike but I LOVE it!

No matter what color combination you choose, felted or not, the Lucy Bag is such a great design, it always turns out beautiful!

Yours in ribbon yarn,
Claire

Intarsia Bag

Here's Trish's completed bag and it is OHMYGOD so pretty!! I've never seen white felted before and it turned out great. Trish had the brilliant idea to dry in over the top of a phone book which gave a really nice structure to the bag.





We just wrapped this class up last week:



I know the ladies look a little stressed here, but we had just been talking about the Kitchener seaming and I think they had a little anticipatory tension thing going on...by the end of the night I had the sense that everyone had enjoyed themselves and they felt pretty accomplished!!!
I love to see the different colors - every bag is one of a kind beautiful!!!!






and then,


this has nothing in particular to do with knitting, but it was the other thing I did that same day, and the photo was in the same folder as the intarsia pictures: took the girls to their riding lesson, and the best thing about that day was it was the first time all winter we rode outside...hard to believe looking outside at the snow falling now, that it was 78 degrees Tuesday....

yours in knitting,
Claire