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Crochet - 'Sakura' Market Bag
So I've finished two things from The Pile, time to reward myself by starting something new, right? >.>
I finished a shijimi bag which frankly has been sitting since I had a holiday market table on December 13th, where I made very very few sales and finished the bag except for sewing the straps down securely (this is why I don't leave things to finish later; 'later' takes wayyy longer than just doing it immediately).
It's not my favourite of the shijimi bags I've made - this green one is! ;) But this colourway is very pretty.
This green one is both the first one I made, and the only one (thus far) I have kept for myself - the others (now three) are all in my sale stock. I freehanded it after a trip to a local farmer's market and I found myself wanting a bag of [specifications] - not for produce and stuff, but for keeping tokens (for paying) in so I didn't have to rummage under everything I was buying to get to them!
The other thing I finished is a washcloth basically - it's now in the kitchen cloths bin - which I used as an experiment on this kind of letters; I'd refine it a bit if I do this style again, but it was fine and I think they turned out well enough.
(Unfortunately the technique is a negative sweet spot - takes just enough focus that I can't trundle along doing it while watching TV or reading, but not enough to be very engaging. Oops.)
Today's project!
Shortly after I catalogued all the yarn that my friend (and her husband, but really, I knew before he was talking about the couple of hours in the yarn store who picked it out XD even if she's not a fiber-crafter herself) gifted me recently - a lot!!! - I had a Thought for one of the skeins, but I made myself wait until I'd finished at least one WIP on Ravelry.
Picked one of those colour-changing DK skeins (the darker one, which is a perfectly fine colourway but maybe not one I'd have chosen myself, a bit beigey) to use trying a market bag of the mesh style, but with a pretty design on the base - a design that requires a fair bit of front post stitches, which I hate post stitches - so some more practise ought to help me get better at them. (And it has, already, so, woo!)
I'm taking a pause now - possibly into tomorrow XP - 15 rounds in and getting into The Boring Bit (that is, the bajillion chains that will make up the mesh sides), and perhaps to play on the![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
threesentenceficathon more!
Also, while I was working on the (unfamiliar, tricky) base, I took photos every round; it was neat to see it grow! Here's some of them:
It's pretty! . . .but it is absolutely not a sakura blossom. >.>;
It's this pattern, though I've actually been using the video tutorial by a friend of the pattern designer (shockingly, because I hate videos for instructions, but her style is good and I need just a little better idea than the written pattern to get started every round).
And technically speaking I won't count it as adding to The Pile until/unless I do a count check and it's still in progress - so I just have to finish it before the end of the month. ;)
I finished a shijimi bag which frankly has been sitting since I had a holiday market table on December 13th, where I made very very few sales and finished the bag except for sewing the straps down securely (this is why I don't leave things to finish later; 'later' takes wayyy longer than just doing it immediately).
It's not my favourite of the shijimi bags I've made - this green one is! ;) But this colourway is very pretty.
This green one is both the first one I made, and the only one (thus far) I have kept for myself - the others (now three) are all in my sale stock. I freehanded it after a trip to a local farmer's market and I found myself wanting a bag of [specifications] - not for produce and stuff, but for keeping tokens (for paying) in so I didn't have to rummage under everything I was buying to get to them!
The other thing I finished is a washcloth basically - it's now in the kitchen cloths bin - which I used as an experiment on this kind of letters; I'd refine it a bit if I do this style again, but it was fine and I think they turned out well enough.
(Unfortunately the technique is a negative sweet spot - takes just enough focus that I can't trundle along doing it while watching TV or reading, but not enough to be very engaging. Oops.)
Today's project!
Shortly after I catalogued all the yarn that my friend (and her husband, but really, I knew before he was talking about the couple of hours in the yarn store who picked it out XD even if she's not a fiber-crafter herself) gifted me recently - a lot!!! - I had a Thought for one of the skeins, but I made myself wait until I'd finished at least one WIP on Ravelry.
Picked one of those colour-changing DK skeins (the darker one, which is a perfectly fine colourway but maybe not one I'd have chosen myself, a bit beigey) to use trying a market bag of the mesh style, but with a pretty design on the base - a design that requires a fair bit of front post stitches, which I hate post stitches - so some more practise ought to help me get better at them. (And it has, already, so, woo!)
I'm taking a pause now - possibly into tomorrow XP - 15 rounds in and getting into The Boring Bit (that is, the bajillion chains that will make up the mesh sides), and perhaps to play on the
threesentenceficathon more!Also, while I was working on the (unfamiliar, tricky) base, I took photos every round; it was neat to see it grow! Here's some of them:
It's pretty! . . .but it is absolutely not a sakura blossom. >.>;
It's this pattern, though I've actually been using the video tutorial by a friend of the pattern designer (shockingly, because I hate videos for instructions, but her style is good and I need just a little better idea than the written pattern to get started every round).
And technically speaking I won't count it as adding to The Pile until/unless I do a count check and it's still in progress - so I just have to finish it before the end of the month. ;)
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. . .plus, frankly, Making Physical Objects is super nice for the mental health sometimes; quoting for example: