tote bag progress

Yeah, I know I'm not posting every day. Sometimes I wonder if I should delete the blog, since there are already so many crap blogs. Sometimes I think I should only lurk, but I don't think it's possible. I'm totally gabby in text, as opposed to my normal withdrawn self.

Here's what I've been busy with, the soon-to-be felted knitting tote:





That's something like 160 rows of garter, so far. The red/blue bit will be the bottom of the bag; the multicolor is the front. Since that picture was taken I've worked about a quarter of the way up the back. Had another pic, of the clever turning stitches I invented, but since most people know what three rows of stockinette among a zillion rows of garter look like (and since the picture doesn't show it well) I'm not putting that one up here.


Instead, here's me with 5/9ths (unless you count the dog, in which case this would be 1/2)of the household lapwarmers:




They are, from left to right, Nameless (the black one on the arm of the chair, and yes, she knows and answers to her name), Raleigh (the grey one in my lap), Winston (the black one on the chair by my legs - Raleigh & Winston are brudders, and so named because as kittens they'd curl up like yin & yang in ashtrays, always in ashtrays), Klutz, on the other arm of the chair (Klutz' other name is Queen of All she Surveys), and Booger, who weighs 19.6 pounds but still thinks of himself as an itty bitty kitty. That's me in the middle.