the land of long lost projects...

Have I dropped off the face of the earth? Nope, I've been a busy bee! I couldn't take the guilt of all the half finished projects I had stashed all over the house, so I finished everything, except for two shirts that I'm not sure what I was thinking when I cut them out...

First, my shopping bag! I took it for its inaugural trip to the grocery store last night, and even with the Bin too, I still came home with 5 plastic bags. A lot better than before, though!

That project wasn't on the shelf for too long, I (Mom) just started it in June. This one was on the go since March!

It was originally going to be Knitty.com's Tubey, but I decided that since the yarn was so HATEFUL, there was no way I was going to do the whole thing. I couldn't even fathom making it with long sleeves, so I just stopped at 3/4. Here's the back (it's really hard to take a picture of your own back!):
It was my first time using double pointed needles, and that doubled with the fact that the yarn was so splitty resulted in one sleeve ending up about 20 stiches bigger than I started with. I tried to do a little repair/alteration, but it's still a bit wonky, so I'm going to try washing it to see if it magically shrinks into a normal shape.

Then there's this purse. It started as a pillow case from Value Village, and I cut it out MONTHS ago (now that I think about it, it was BEFORE Christmas!). It was meant to be for sale (really, I have no need for a shiny evening bag these days), but I'm in love with it! I'm going to put it up for sale, and if it doesn't sell by the time the listing runs out (I think Etsy gives you 3 months per listing or something like that), it's MINE!
Front:
Back:
One more, and this is perhaps the most embarrasing. Last year before I moved, I cut out a bunch of patterns from fabric that I bought specifically for said patterns, but bought 3 metres too much of all of them. We're talking 4 metres of green knit, 4 metres of PURPLE STRIPE knit, and 4 metres of some weird stretchy polyester stuff with weird writing on it. I gave the leftovers to Mom for Guides or church or whatever she could do to get rid of it, and I only moved with one bag of cut out patterns. Well, those patterns sat on the shelf for a couple of months, then I started a green zippy sweater (the rest of them I never touched!). I got as far as the zipper, then I got caught up in painting the little house so we could move in, and I put it back in the bag.
That was last August. I just finished it Friday.
I always forget how much I hate sewing knit fabrics. So, other than the pink terry cloth that I bought on sale that's sitting in my closet, I vow to never buy another knit fabric as long as I live! So I ditched the purple stripe and weird writingy polyester shirts, and now I have no more guilt (except for the terry cloth).


The other big thing that's happening here is...my craft room is done!!!! Well, that's a bit of a lie, I still need to put some trim around my super-fantastic-bulletin-board-thingy, but I hope to have that done tomorrow. So I'll be posting a huge entry dedicated to my wonderful dream craft room.
How wonderful is it? So great that on a sunny day, I just spent 5 hours cutting out handbags. Then I drew up some plans for some deck furniture, and just as I was about to go outside to figure out how much wood I need from the pile of scrap decking, it started pouring. So now I'm back in my wonderful craft room and I will never leave.
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