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Friday, January 19, 2007

Recycled Silk Bag



Yarn: Mango Moon Recycled silk
Pattern: Adapted from Carawata Bag, Andean Folk Knits, by Marcia Lewandowski. I basically used the shape and made it a little bigger.
The yarn is very soft and funky to look at and work with. It tends to shred if any frogging needs to be done and I wonder how the drawstring strap will hold up. I thought the draw string closure was clever. I used a a chain, then came back with a single crochet. I am thinking of some beads, but don't know if I'll ever get to that.
It was difficult to photograph. This was one of those yarns I knew I just had to try once and I like the results. Time will tell if I will use this. Maybe it would be a nice one to take to the movies.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

it does look nice, i hate it when things don't photograph as well as i would like!

Anonymous said...

Whoa, watch out for purse snatchers if you take this cute bag to the movies!
Susan

Unknown said...

The bags look great! It's funny how some yarns just have a way of "adopting" us.

Rachel said...

Very funky and cute!

Terby said...

Looks nice! The recycled silk has a great effect.

Opal said...

I love the way it came out. I agree with Debbie, very eclectic!

Anonymous said...

Oh yummy, what a lovely and funky bag, and I totally love that yarn! I've heard a lot about that Mango Moon Yarn and I think it's definitely worth a try! Beautiful work!