Sticky Paws Blog

In my last post I blogged about a piece of felt not quite turning out how you expected and how easy it is to consider it a disaster and consign the piece of felt to the bin.  However, this bag is proof that sometimes disasters can work to your advantage.  Despite doing a swatch the piece of felted knitting was much smaller than I had planned (probably something to do with my maths) and certainly wasn’t big enough for the handbag I wanted to make.  The handbag pattern is from U-Handbag but there wasn’t enough material for the flap.  Well the piece of knitting sat patiently on my kitchen table for several weeks until I remembered that I had some felted black offcuts from another work in progress and a piece of felting in the burnt orange colour (which really did felt badly) which I could use for the flap.  I am really pleased with the result and I think it looks much better than it would have all in the same fabric.

Spotted Handbag

Spotted Handbag Close up

 I would never have thought to use these colour combinations and am really pleased that this bag was initially a ‘disaster’.