Yes, I’m an itinerant home artisan (I HATE the word crafter) and am always looking to find something that both challenges my mind and my artisan side (which always needs challenging–it’s probably my weakest attribute).  I’m great at copying and adapting other’s designs–but coming up with something that is totally my own is truly a challenge for me.  With that said, I’ve been knitting on-and-off  for almost 3 years now but it’s only in the past 6 months that it’s truly taken fire.  It  happened when I finally decided that knitting rectangles was boring–and that I could, indeed, take on the challenges of lace.  My first lace projects weren’t ambitious, but they were challenging.  Reading lace charts is like an entirely new language.

Along with the lace came a need for bags in whch to store different projects.  After looking at the prices of pre-done bags, I did some quick googling and came up with my own modification of several designs.  I promised some folks that I would send the directions, so here they are  Project Bags (this is a Microsoft Word 2007 document–click on this link–it will take you to another page–click on the red “project bags” link again and the document will download.)