a girl can not have enough bags
did you know that if you visit the Interweave Knits web site they have free patterns that you can download that are not even in the magazine. and they are available many times before the newest magazine even hits the newstand or your mailbox? yep!
you know that birthday/mother’s day gift certificate that traveled with me to Michigan last week well it found some yummy Julia Yarn by Kristin Nicholas. (you should check out her blog http://www.kristinnicholas.com ). you can find the blog through this site along with her fun and SO cute products!
she has some patterns that will be out in the magazine of course, but she has two patterns that are on the IK free downloads right now. i thought i was buying the yarn to make the cute little cat but you know how sometimes things change and yarn has a mind-of-it’s-own. i didn’t know it at the time but i’m making the Fiesta del Sol bag. only i’m really making a Fiesta del Jardin or a Fiesta del Flor bag.
yeah, i got out my husband’s old English to Spanish dictionary from his missions trip years back to Nicaragua. jardin is garden and flor is flower, but you could probably figure that out. the Fiesta del Sol bag is all beautiful sunny yarn colors. i have the only 6 colors that the LYS had they are amazingly beautiful, but they are not sun inspired colors.
listen to the names of these yarn colors: Ladies Mantle, Coleus, Geranium, Blue Thyme, Deep Blue Sea (to water the garden with, right!).
so my knitting bag is packed with my pattern, new project, and needles and i’m off to Lake Geneva with hubby and friends for the weekend. i love car knitting! BTW: might be making this at the same time, must have both! http://wicked_stitches.typepad.com
