Jul 14th, 2007
Bamboo bag
One of the gifts I received from my very excellent SP10 spoiler, Pixie, was a skein of Bamboozle yarn in a fabulous green color. She also sent along a pattern for a cute little drawstring bag that uses exactly one skein of this stuff. Perfect!
Last weekend I went out of town for a few days and decided to bring this yarn and pattern as one of my projects. It’s not a difficult pattern, with enough not-just-stockinette variation to keep my brain from going numb, but nothing that demanded so much of my attention that I wasn’t able to knit and watch the first two (or fourth and fifth, depending on how you count them) Star Wars movies while listening to the accompanying Rifftrax. (All of you who are still mourning the passing of MST3K, take hope!)
As instructed, I knit the sixteen-inch I-cord first. As you can see, I ended up having to cannibalize most of that I-cord when, just after completing the eyelet row at the top of the bag, I realized there was no way I had enough yarn left. No worries–I’ll make the drawstring using something else. Maybe I’ll even try a ribbon there (ooooh–fancy schmancy!).
I really enjoyed knitting this bag–and not just because I was laughing my head off most of the time, thanks to Mike Nelson and Co. The yarn is very light and easy on the hands, with a sort of springiness. It’s plied in such a way that I easily (and not intentionally) split the yarn a few times when I started the moss stitch bottom, but after I got a feel for the yarn I didn’t have this problem any more.
Ditto on having to get used to the yarn splitting. I made a tank top from Baboozle — and I LOVE how it drapes.