Basic Human Bag (FO) (plus a little extra!)

I don’t always feel human. Sometimes I resemble more a panda, or a zombie, or the grinch. This will be my emergency bag for those days, rather than having everything floating about in my bag, getting lost, opened and bashed. Hence the Basic Human Bag. Fake it, baby!

I finished the bag on Sunday, and I have been using it this week. I really like it! All my "beauty" stuff is now together and easy to find. And, when I need to take it to the bathroom with me, I can just grab the bag by the i-cord and dangle it on my way there, rather than attempt to take whatever it is discretely.

These are the contents of my bag. The little blush pot also contains a mirror, and I plan to put in as well painkillers and allergy meds.


Technical notes
Ravelry project page
Pattern: Soft Drawstring Pouch, by Joelle Hoverson, from Last-Minute Knitted Gifts
Yarn: Cathay (Debbie Bliss) in Grey, which appears to be discontinued, approx 60 meters.
Needles: 3.75 mm (dpns)
Technical notes: I only cast on 60 stitches instead of 90 for the small size, as I didn't need it that big. Knitted until everything fit! I was planning to graft the bottom, but apparently I cannot graft to safe my life. After 3 attempts this Sunday at my Stitch'n'Bitch, I gave up and did a 3-needle bind-off. I alternated knitting and purling stitches, ending which a slightly ziggy end that I think looks very pretty!





Extra, extra!
Finished knitting my boyfriend's dice bag, now it's just waiting to be felted. It's huge! Look, I can use it as a hat!


I iz hidden!

Three Works-In-Progress

This Sunday, just before watching Doctor Who (is it can be Saturday nao, plees? Need to know how it continues!), I bound off the body of the Summer Lace tee. It is still a way from done, especially as I still need to figure out how to do the straps. I don't want i-cord, but I don't know how to knit them, or whether to use ribbon.

I took some pictures yesterday, and let me tell you, it is remarkably difficult to take pictures of your own back!

You can see held in red the stitches that might held the straps, although there is no equivalent in the back. I figures I could always bound them off if I didn't use them, and I want the straps to go where my bra straps are, so I couldn't to the back just yet.


I have been making much progress with the Dice bag, and I am nearly about to start the decreases. Yesterday I bought one more ball of yarn, as I had run out of it. It is taking a lot more yarn than previously advertised!

I can only work on it two or three rounds at a time, because it's wool, so I've been knitting it in the bus, as that's only 20 min each way. The rounds are eternal, though. 160 stitches are a lot of stitches!

Finally, I started something little for me, the Basic Human bag. I don't always feel human. Sometimes I resemble more a panda, or a zombie, or the grinch. This will be my emergency bag for those days, rather than having everything floating about in my bag, getting lost, opened and bashed.

The basic human bag will contain: concealer, vaselin, nail clipper, migraine stick, painkillers and allergy meds. Possibly some blush, for the corpse-like days, but I need to find a really small one to fit the bag.
I'm using a pattern from Last minute knitted gits, albeit a bit smaller, and using leftover yarn from the Clapotis. It should be quick, and I can start using it soon, because I really need it! Things end up all over my bag and I can never find them.