Not much here.....

I've been painting a lot this week (see my Etsy ShirleyArt shop http://www.ShirleyArt.etsy.com) so the knitting has been coming along slowly. I have a lot of projects started, even more in the design stage, but nothing new finished for this week. I have a cell phone bag I am finishing up and hope to post early next week. Stay tuned......

Work in Progress

Still working away on this bag.

It is inspired by a rug woven by members of the Great Plains tribe. I am knitting it in a worsted weight cotton. Doing colorwork at this tight of a gauge in this kind of cotton is very hard on my hands! (Hence why I am only working on it a little at a time!) The resulting bag though is nice and soft, and I like the colors, too. It will be a small-sized tote bag, and will have to be lined as well. Hope to finish it in the next few weeks!

Another WIP

Here is another WIP.
I got the urge to start a new project (!) right before Thanksgiving. It should be a quick little bag, based on some traditional Finnish designs. It is knit in an extremely thin mercerized cotton.

WIP - Great Lakes Bag

This tote is based on patterns taken from woven textiles of the Great Lakes Native Americans. It is knitted from cotton, rather densely knitted, and will be lined when finished. I hope to have the finished bag available on Etsy early in 2010.

WIP - Hinsdale Autumn Bag

Since I don't have any current finished projects to show, I thought I would blog about what I am working on. The projects on this blog are of my own design, and many are available for purchase. If you want to see my other projects (socks, sweaters, etc.) then check out my Ravelry page (I'm DebKnits on Ravelry).

This WIP is a medium-sized bag with patterning based on some Komi designs. It will be lightly fulled when finished. I call it Hinsdale Autumn, because Hinsdale is the name of one of the towns we drove through when I was in the early stages of knitting it and the gold and rust colors make me think of autumn. I hope to have it up on Etsy by the beginning of 2010.