hooray for handbags!

this sign hangs in my apartment. with spring coming i am beginning to feel i need more handbags. thankfully my yarn for the flower basket bag arrived last week. i was very nervous about knitting this bag. it looked really complicated. but last night i cast on for the front and got through the first pattern repeat.



now, i am kinda stuck going forward. at this point i need to start decreasing at the end of each row, but it doesn't tell you how. i peeked over at the knit-along and there were some pointers, but i am not sure they are correct. i hate to mess up. after all this isn't the cheapest project. i want it to turn out. so i will ponder over the pattern a bit more this evening to see if i can come up with a plan.

speaking of handbags, i fell in love with one from the new rowan magazine.



unfortunately, it is the only pattern i like so i won't be buying the magazine. maybe i can wing it, we'll see.

i also got several more rows done on my entrelac stole from scarf style. i just hit 30 inches so i am nearly halfway there!

AND a decision was made AND acted upon regarding clapotis. i ordered yarn from knit2purl2. it looks like the yarn is already on it's way too and i just ordered yesterday, talk about service! so i present to you, lorna's laces lion and lamb in vera.



i found this blog when i was surfing the net to find swatches of vera knit up. somebody else out there is knitting clapotis in vera as well! i can't wait to get my yarn and get started.