Stuffing For Brains

 
 
I go to a craft group called Atlanta Church of Craft (there are Church of Craft groups all over the country, and maybe even in Canada, so if you're looking for a craft group, look up Church of Craft in a nearby city). The very first time I went, I didn't have a project to work on... and I was all shy and worried. My friend had the book, Stitch 'N Bitch Crochet: The Happy Hooker by Debbie Stoller. I flipped around through it and found this adorable little drawstring bag. The pattern actually says to make it with something like an E hook, but I wanted a purse sized bag, so I made it with an H/8 or something, instead. I liked the way it turned out in the end and gave it to my future sister-in-law as a gift.
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This bag was made with Caron Simply Soft Brites, Blue Mint. My anthropologist friend, to whom I gave an amigurumi skull, really liked the bag when she saw it finished. So, for her birthday, I made one for her in bright green, her favorite color, using Caron Simply Soft Brites, Limelight.
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The only difference, apart from the color, between the green bag and the blue bag is that I made the green bag with little flower dongles, because I didn't like the dongles on the original pattern very much. They were weird clover shaped things that claimed to be hearts. lol So I just hunted through the Googles looking for pretty motifs and found this pattern. Making this particular flower motif, I had to learn how to do a cluster stitch, which was cool. :D

Both bags were made in July of 2009.