Playing with Yarn

I went to Hobby Lobby several weeks ago for the HUGE yarn sale. I found 3 skeins of I Love This Cotton. I had been meaning to try it, since they were on sale ($.82!) and the same color, I went for it! I have been working with a lot of cotton yarn for potholders lately, so I’m used to the feel of the yarn. I like the feel of ILTY, but it doesn’t work as well for potholders. So I set it aside and started to brainstorm.

Eureka! I can make a Market Bag! I started scouring Pinterest for patterns of bags and found some that looked pretty simple...and once I looked at the patterns, they weren’t so simple. I started playing around with the yarn and decided that I would make my own Market Bag. I figured that the worst thing that would happen would be that I had to frog the whole thing and put it away until I wanted to try again.

I kept working at it and surprisingly, I didn’t frog once! I made the whole bag and the strap in a matter of days! I’ll have to make another one and actually write down the pattern, but here is the finished product!