Friday, October 5, 2007

Inspiration comes from everywhere

Sunday night, while planning my trip to a LYS that was having a sale, I was struck by instant inspiration. I needed a present for my mother in law's birthday (I still have a month but when inspiration strikes you don't ignore it), I decided to make a pipes and braids bag, but with some modifications. I took off the pipe around the bottom of the bag and one from the top of the bag, following the design change Stitchnscrap did (the belt instead of the braid) I had a flash of using a vine with flowers going around it based off of this scarf. I'm using lambs pride bulky in lotus pink and aran. The flowers are going to be done in lambs pride worsted in lotus pink and the vine in kiwi. Here's some pictures of my progress so far. I wrapped my vine around the bag in one picture to give a vague idea of what it will look like all put together. Oh and if you look closely, one of my little monsters is in one of the pictures.

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Thanks to everyone for my inspiration :)

4 comments:

Sheknits said...

Johnna- I am sure I speak for everyone here (...hint hint all of you....)I can't wait to see how this is going to turn out. Did you ever try felting the aran color before? I am a little nervous it won't felt as sometimes lighter colors are bleached and for whatever reason the bleach changes the wools ability to felt....now I am nervous. It looks so cool in the aran and pink. YOu have really taken the best postive advantage of what a KAL can be...INSPIRATION from seeing others work!
Sharon

Johnna said...

I haven't tried felting the aran color, but I'm excited to see what happens. If it doesn't felt, eh no big deal. I'm sure I'll love it no matter what.

Kiwi Jo said...

What a great idea! You're very creative. What kind of doggie do you have??

Johnna said...

The dog that's hiding in the background is a corgi. He's a little monster and into everything, but I'd be lost without him. I have another dog that's a Sheltie mix, and the two couldn't be any more different from each other.