As you all probably know, one of my absolute favorite ways of keeping my figure is knitting.* And knowing my love, passion and adoration of scarves, wraps and shawls, it’s easy to guess what I like to knit the most.
Of course scarves and wraps aren’t all I do, but they do let me have fun and play around the most. Try different yarns, different techniques, an odd needle-size… In the end, it doesn’t have to fit. Or better yet, how do you make a wrap that doesn’t fit? So wraps let me experiment.
My latest project wasn’t a scarf or a wrap, though. It’s a handbag. Is, as it’s still in the works. I’m doing it to a friend, to match a sweater I made her earlier and she loves. So I’m using some of the cable pattern and the same yarn from the sweater in the bag. I ripped the idea of the model for this from a Margaret Nicol bag from 2006, and customized and altered it until it fit my purpose and my friend.
But this all made me realise how much I really enjoy this experimenting and planning and trying out and seeing things take form and turn out like I wanted. So I started playing around with this idea of designing some things of my own. I’ve done it, to a degree thus far. But really, all I’ve done is take someone else’s design and alter it. I want to make something of my own.
And the cliche of it all almost turns me off the idea.
Input, anyone?
xoxo,
ii
* What?? It’s perfectly logical!
