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Written by Martha Marques   
Thursday, 25 September 2008 08:06



This is the Bag of Tricks, so named because it was a series of one trial and error endeavor after another. This was my first felted project. I had a pile of hand dyed yarn balls of various sizes and weights that I had randomly thrown into various dye pots over a couple of years. And I also had six 4 oz skeins of natural Maine worsted weight wool. So I dyed up the white wool looking for a vaguely cranberryish color. And since I can only fit four skeins at a time in my dyeing set up I had two dye baths, or dye lots as it were. So I dyed four, and then I took two of those and threw them into the second dye bath....thereby ending up with three dye lots of cranberryish colors. The background shades on this bag gradate from darkest on the bottom to lighter on the top, although I don't think that is apparent in this photo. I randomly combined various weights of wool/cashmere/mohair for the flower shapes using a Fair Isle technique and knit the bag in one big round shape. The finished bag is about 24 inches wide, so the knitted pre-felted bag was about 36 inches wide or 72 inches around approximately. I planned for the handle to fold over as you can glimpse in the top of the photo, but my intention was for the bag to be a square shape.  As you can see it all did not go according to plan.

 

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