Ta-daaa!

A finished knitting kneedle case, from Stoller's Stitch & Bitch. That's a royal purple ribbon, by the way. I chose it because I loved the color, no matter what other colors I had used in the rest of the case. I kind of stuck with red for most of it...

Well, okay, that jaquard is kind of pinkish, but for the most part the case is red and white. I think you can click on the photo for a closeup of that kids-playing calico; it's cute as all get-out, some kind vintage 1930s reproduction that I found in Denver at a high-end quilt shop. I bought one yard, just enough (so I thought) to make a cute little kitchen apron. I like it better in my kneedle case, don't you? I have the case less than half-filled up, but I have a lifetime to accumulate sticks and since the pattern is so easy I can always make another one.

There is plenty of leftover fabric, so I'm thinking of making a similar case for my crochet hooks.

And lookie here, in a vertiable pile of finished objects, the purple Fetching gloves of last week. It's still too warm at night to wear them at home, but I put the blue ones on in my office nearly every afternoon. The camera didn't capture it, but that's a beautiful rich purple yarn, with little flecks of orange and other colors in it.
Meanwhile, I've started the French Market Bag, out of that Knitpicks Wool of the Andes I purchased last year for the Kepler sweater. I've tried to start this bag a couple of times before, but kept messing it up. This time, the cast on and the first couple of inches have gone along very smoothly so perhaps it is Meant To Be. I stared the base by knitting back and forth on a circular needle, rather than starting it with the dpns, because it was easier. It looks like the first two-thirds of the project are a nice, portable, brainless knit so I'll take it to work with me since the Psycho Stripes Sock 2 will be finished this weekend. Hear that, sock?

Pellew's Pelisse continues, row by row. By row. By row. By row.

Have you been following Wendy's Noni Bag adventures? I'm itching to work on something similar. Last year, I started a felted messenger bag of my own design, but frogged it about halfway through, I can't remember why. Well, Wendy's bags have inspired me to think about trying again. I have some skeins of Lopi in impossibly brilliant colors and maybe this time, instead of just knitting with what comes to hand, I could arrange some kind of interesting stripe pattern and actually think about what I was doing. I want it to be big enough to carry a letter-sized notepad, my calendar, and some pens, and the strap has to be strong enough to not look goofy while doing it. Maybe a tote bag instead of a messenger bag. Hmm.

If only I weren't the world's slowest knitter.