Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Leather Bottom Bag



This is a bag I've been fooling around with. I saw this idea over on Anti-craft and was so taken with it. My grandpa was an avid deer hunter and always had the hides tanned and processed. When he passed away, I was given an entire brown paper bag full of his deer leather. I first attempted knitting a bag with a leather bottom but I wasn't happy with the pattern. It was awkward and the work didn't progress well so I ripped it out and instead crocheted the bag out of my stash of Lamb's Pride Brown Sheep yarn. My girlfriends have been working on crochet leather bottom bags too. I can crochet squares and rectangles but I can't read a crochet pattern and I've never been able to make flat circular shapes, so this is a quick way to start them.

Hat on

First of all.....yes I have a Styrofoam head! I have to say it is very handy for blocking and she is a good model, isn't she? I knit this hat out of some Brown Sheep Lamb's Pride Bulky in a variegated green/brown colorway. I'd had the yarn for some time because I love ugly greens but as soon as I saw this pattern, I knew what I'd use the yarn for. I took this to our local county fair last week and it won a blue ribbon. It will be a while before I get to wear it though. Did I mention we had a heat index of 106 yesterday?