Okay, here's what I've been up to lately. For one thing, I discovered that I've been doing the knit stitch wrong. As a newbie self-taughter knitter, I suppose this is a risk you take. The discovery was made while watching Philosopher's Wool video clip on how to do the Two-handed Fair Isle Technique. You can probably see the bias I had going on my pre-felted Sophie bag in the previous blog entry. So now I have my Noro Iro Booga Bag that I had been working on needing frogging. If you look at the picture below, you can see where I attached a twist tie to mark where I starting knitting correctly. What a difference, DUH!!



A closer look:



Oh well, I'm happy that I saw the light. I can now say that I am a continental knitter, where before I just figured I had my own style.

Here's my latest project. I mentioned previously that I was going to do this bag for my Bag Me KAL. Here's how it's going so far. It will be felted and I must say that if this works out there will be more to come. Maybe next time I'll show what it looks like on the inside. I'll be lining it but I don't think it looks half bad for a beginner.



Here's my latest handmade stitch markers:



Oh and I've got to show off my latest recycled yarn from a men's wool sweater I got at a thrift shop. Sorry to say I didn't take a picture of the sweater first, but so far I have 5 skeins at 272 yards each. I love this colour and have had my eye out for something like since the start of my knitting journey. I see a Sophie Bag (knitted and felted properly this time), and I'm not sure what else.



Well I have some major catching up on reading fellow knitter's blogs....I've been too busy knitting so I'm behind! A good excuse to brew some coffee. Thanks to all who leave comments, I find them very encouraging and love having an excuse to see what you are also up to with your projects. :-)