Pretty Woman is a Knitter

These pictures were published in People magazine and knitters everywhere went wild. There was mass hysteria in the yarn shops. Brown Sheep Lambs Pride Bulky flew off the shelves. There was a mad rush for novelty yarns. There was fighting in the streets!! The last time I saw chaos like this was when Tickle Me Elmo hit the shelves that one year for Christmas. OK I am totally exaggerating. I do know several people who went ga-ga over the bag we have come to know as........"The Julia Roberts Bag." Real original huh? I think these pictures were published a year or two ago. So please do not run to your local bookstore or super market to buy the current issue of People magazine. I don't think a true pattern was ever revealed. Everything I saw about it said it was "her own pattern."

Here is my "Julia Roberts Bag" I made for my friend Jamie. I still need to sew the handles on it and then figure out a way to get some silk flowers to be stuck to the front of it. I may have to get really creative with this one. Any suggestions? If so drop me a line.

Here is what I used for my "Julia Roberts Bag": The Fiber Trends Fabulous Felt Totes pattern. I did the largest size. Brown Sheep Lambs Pride Bulky in yup you guessed it......Lemon Drop. The fuzzyness around the top was doubled Trendsetter Crisantemo in Purple Peacock. I used Trendsetter Joy here and there so I would have some fun yarn sticking out. I also used a ladder yarn and some Fizz.

When I am done with it I am going to find a black overcoat, some big dark shades, and pose with my bag Miss Julia Roberts style!

Glutton for Punishment

Oops I did it again..........I went and joined another mystery knitalong. I said I would never do another mystery project after flunking out of Mystery Stole 3. However this one drew me in and whispered "but I am a Halloween project." That pretty much killed me right there. I am such a sucker for a holiday centered around CANDY and all things SCARY. I went right over and signed myself up for the Halloween Mystery Shawl. I am using ebony JaggerSpun Zephyr with some sort of purple beads. I have not purchased the purple beads yet, but that was the color that jumped into my head when I read that beads would be used.

Oh and how perfect is this!?.......I was in Old Navy last week and they had these cute trick or treat bags.......well I just had to have one to hold my new Halloween themed project.

EXTREME KNITTING

While my hobby is knitting....my husbands hobby is off roading. Have you heard of this? Oh well let me explain.....Basically men and women take their trucks places where no car would dare to venture. An example of this would be an old mining road, as well as a field of boulders. Sometimes the two hobbies meet and when they do it looks a little something like this:

Fall has come to Colorado

Here I am in deep concentration waiting for the other trucks to arrive.

That shadowy figure in the passenger seat is me knitting my little heart out. I wanted so badly to wave my knitting out the window for the picture. Then thought what if we roll over and I lose a limb or worse......a stitch!!!


I knit the entire trail. I only had to put my knitting down twice and hold on for dear life aka the "OH SH*T" moments. I'm sure there were other times that I should have put the knitting down and feared for my life, but I like to take risks now and then.

No knitting or humans were harmed in this photo.

Sunday Knitting

This is the last time I will be knitting with a knitting group as a "blogless" knitter! :)