Felted Panto Bag!

Based on Nicky Epstein's wonderful and stylish Shibori Bag, this unique effort was made using 20mm needles and "Biggy Print" yarn to the same dimensions. I used a blanket stitch edging to join the sides and handles, and continued the contrasting chocolate-shade wool by overstitching with a crochet chain (thanks mum!) twice to bind. The result? Interestingly the stitches shrank by about 50% vertically but only by about 15% horizontally... resulting in this... I trimmed the corners off the top flap because it was really banana house shaped, while still keeping the curved effect when shoulder slung. Not quite what I had in mind, but the felting (twice round a short cycle on my daily machine wash) was fun and exciting (!) sorry I didn't take before and after pictures, which would have been much more illuminating. Next felting project coming up, and this time, I shall :)