Apologies

I apologize to everyone for the lack of posting last week. Bryan was working long hours, coming home after bedtime most nights (sometimes my bedtime!) and I was struggling with a migraine. Bryan finally brought me migraine medicine later in the week, which helped. Unfortunately for all of you guys, though, the abatement of the migraine coincided with the arrival of some beautiful yarn that I had ordered... I was obsessed and actually knitted an entire bag in three days. I started another one yesterday but am disciplining myself today for your sakes and won't let myself work on it until I blog.

Last weekend, as a lot of you know, was a busy weekend. Aunt Kelley and Jason came home for Bryan's cousin Andrew's wedding. I took tons of pictures of the weekends' activities, but couldn't find the camera this week (adding to my reasons for not posting). I assumed the camera had been left in Bryan's truck, and I kept forgetting to look for it there. On Thursday evening Faye came to stay with the boys so I could take Merlyn, Berkleigh, and Aleesa (one of my daycare kids and Merlyn's best friend) to the playground for a picnic dinner. My purse was in Bryan's truck so I met him at work to get it, and looked for the camera and it wasn't there. So I missed out on great photo ops at the playground with the girls. I finally found the camera Friday. I had seen it on my seraches but thought it was the video camera. It was a crazy week for me and I wasn't up to par, that's for sure.

For now, I will show you the pictures of Kelley's bag that I made herin time to give to her last Friday. I was worried that felting would shrink it too much, so I made it extra big, then had to spend a lot of time felting so it would shrink enough! Now I have developed a great pattern, so my last one was more proportional.



























Do I look like I'm going to flash the camera? The bag could have been made into a dress.








It's Berkleigh in a bag! She could use it as a sleeping bag, I guess.





















The finished project was really the perfect size. Notice how the pre-felted bag took up almost four tile squares, and after felting it was one square (each tile is almost 16 inches). Kelley liked her new bag, and the colors suit her perfectly (probably because she picked them out!). I have gotten my first order for a bag from a paying customer, so now maybe I can profit financially from my addiction. I'll just be happy if the proceeds can justify acquiring new yarn...