Working With Your Own Design

September 13th, 2006

greenpurse4.JPGI’m completed with the knitting part of my pouch/purse, and I’m excited to get the other parts finished. I’m pretty happy with what I have on the front, although unfortunately you can’t really see it in detail. My camera doesn’t take really close up knitting well. You can imagine celtic braiding on each side, and in the middle two lines twining around eachother in large loops. Now I need to block it so the flap is the same size and shape of the actual purse.

I must say that I was a little disappointed in this yarn. I love the color, the texture,and the softness. However, the yarn broke at least two times while I was knitting the more complicated front. This is not good!

The front panele involved a lot of twisted stitches, dropping stitches off the needle, and other such things. While it was pretty complicated to figure out what the hell I was doing at first, after a while I understood the mechanics and was able to do some pieces without reading the pattern. I’m glad I did this, because I learned a lot.

Ahhh, and you may be asking yourself what the red fabric is for. That’s leftover silk (I forget what kind) from my wedding belt. I want to line it with that, because I love the fabric and the color with that yarn. I think it will look great.

greenpurse1.JPG I decided to do a moss stitch before the bind-off on the inside of the purse so that the edges wouldn’t curl over. I really like how it gives a finished look. I used moss stitch to end the flap too, but that isn’t quite as visible even in person.

So far I’m happy with this! I’m excited to finish it soon.

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2 Responses to “Working With Your Own Design”

  1. Michelle says:
    October 3, 2006 at 1:03 pm

    I love the purse, Kri. Would you be willing to write out a pattern? I know it’s a lot of work, but it would be wonderful, as I am not the creative knitter type – I prefer to follow someone else’s instructions.

  2. Kri says:
    October 3, 2006 at 3:22 pm

    I would be glad to write out a pattern :) I think you’ll be surprised at how easy it is. The front panel designs were taken from a book, so I’ll write up everything but that. Then I can just give you name of the book and pages of the designs. I found mine by checking it out of the library.