this was my very first knitting project, which i finally finished yesterday: i had knit all the pieces and finished it up on my vacation in mid-july, but i hadn’t blocked them or put them together yet.
this started out as an attempt to make Zeeby’s Bag, out of Stitch ‘n Bitch: The Knitter’s Handbook — it didn’t turn out quite like planned. for starters, the dimensions are supposed to be 12″ tall by 15″ wide. not sure what happened here, because i was measuring religiously while knitting (and i did so remember to do a swatch!), but my panels ended up 11″ by 17″. a bit more rectangular than planned. also, i decided to change the handles to i-cord so they’d be roundy and retain shape better, and i decided to line it so that i could put things with pointy edges — keys, pens, stuff like that — in there without them poking out. anyways, yesterday i finally blocked it (even though i used woolease, i thought it was worth a shot — especially because the two sides were, before blocking, wildly different in width — one was 16″, the other 18″. as you can see from the first photo, though, blocking didn’t entirely solve that problem, though i think it did help). then i machine sewed the lining together, sewed the bag together, hand-sewed the lining in (i thought machine-sewing it would look obnoxiously obvious), then finally attached the handles. et voilà!
like that accidental, asymmetrical gusset on the left bottom corner? um.. it adds visual excitement! yeah!
i like my swanky purple lining fabric. i need more things that need to be lined with swanky purple lining.
just to give you an idea of the size…
