So Saturday I got a really nice but rather late birthday present. My birthday was in January. That’s ok though since I am so in love with my present. My favorite uncle got me a fantastic bag. Now I can never have enough bags! I even adore the colors since I am so into reds. It has been really grey and crappy so I’m just borrowing the photo from the store.
It’s a good size for purse junk and a book or a sock. Finding that size is so hard. Either it’s too tiny for a sock or its so huge it’s like carrying around a sack of potatoes all day. I also finished one of my toe up vine lace socks. It’s an easy pattern and a gorgeous sock. I’ll try and take a picture today. So todayI did some dyeing and stuff its still wet otherwise I’d have pictures. Plus I want to wait till this batch is done. Anyway yesterday before SNB I went to Hobby Lobby. I wanted to see if notions were half off this week and I was kinda sorta hoping they would have cotton-ease or some flavor of cotton blend. I have some cotton but thats it for spring/summer yarns. Not really too enthused with making something and not wearing it for 6 months. So there I walked those long badly lit aisles. Trying to avoid the taint of fun fur and other nausea inducing ‘novelty’ yarns. Do you know that if possible their selection is worse than ever. They didn’t have even wool-ease! They had their in house brand of dead muppet pelts and red heart and some other stuff. They did have some non dishcloth cotton but I have some much better cotton stashed already. Now granted I don’t usually buy yarn there since I am a yarn snob but come on…the only stuff they had for garments was red heart!?!
I agree about purse sizes. I’m not a high-maintenance, must-match-bag-with-shoes girl, but I do need something to lug everything around in (my husband once asked me why I don’t just use my pockets like he does, and I reminded him that my purse holds all the crap that won’t fit in his pockets, like ibuprofen, Splenda, and the camera). The purse I have right now is less than medium-sized and it doesn’t have a shoulder strap (WHY? WHY DID I BUY ONE WITHOUT A SHOULDER STRAP?), but it has a middle pocket just for knitting. None of the pockets close because it’s always stuffed too full. Bah. I’m switching to my backpack again.