my lovely, fat-assed rainbow bag

It's nice when an unplanned project = success. This pattern is called the "Fat Bottom Bag." I did the actual crochet after I got home from work last Monday-- barely lost any sleep too. It was about a 4-5 hour project not including the sewing. I randomly picked the yarn online without much thought to what the colors would look like and then randomly picked the fabric at "Textile Fabrics" in Melrose. Good God, I got lucky!

I only put about 3 or so hours of handwork/sewing in. I think my skills are improving. I may actually carry this bag.

Sweater #3 has been started.

Only about 102 more of these to make.

apparently I'm liking alpaca... I didn't really intend for this to happen.

After a short run of Christmas presents (3 scarves, to be exact,) I can go back to making things I've been wanting to do for myself. I bought some yarn and now I'm scheming over its future. I've ordered some lace-weight alpaca in red (sorry no picture) and a sport weight alpaca blend in blue (but I think the color is actually called Blueberry.)

So, I have patterns in mind for this stuff but I'm not 100% positive what's going to happen. I'm thinking sweaters... preferably sweaters that are sleeveless, like the violaine which I love, or very open so they won't burn me up.