knits : lace and leather bag
The genesis of this bag was getting a large ball of beautiful lace-weight mohair as a gift from my mother. The first thing I made with it was a simple airy shoulder wrap, garter stitch knitting back and forth with increases at each edge and two in the middle. Well, I got tired of garter stitch after a while, so I bound it off and started wearing it, but the ball of yarn wasn’t quite used up. I intended for this lace pattern to be a matching scarf but - whoops, not enough yarn! - so I got creative and turned it into this bag. The knitting was blocked and sewn to a piece of leather using blanket stitch and the bag closes with a simple button. It’s currently holding school (teaching) supplies.
Current Thoughts: preparing to return to Turkey, saying goodbyes and hellos.
Current Read: No God but God, by Reza Aslan. An excellently written, educational, and balanced history of Islam. I have 80 pages remaining.
