Fiber Fool

A couple weeks ago a class on the Mitered Diamond Bag from the Felt special issue of Interweave was complete. Of course everyone still needed to felt their bag after the class was over. We decided an extra “class” for sharing and photo taking (and a yummy lunch) was in order for the future. So, last week we all got together and had some laughs photographing everyone’s colorful Mitered Diamond Bags and then went out to lunch.

All three gals chose to use Brown Sheep Lamb’s Pride Worsted and they turned out very similar in size and just a tad thicker than the original which was knit in Cascade 220. Everyone really mixed up the colors from the original too, all using more than four. I *love* seeing everyone take their own spin in colors and yarn - especially on a project like this that is so wide open for variations. They even used Grayson E purse handles like I put on my Decarhombi.

Laura ventured farther out on a limb by carrying along some handpaint Wildefoot sock yarn (with nylon content) in some of her diamonds. I was a little concerned about it changing the size of those diamonds so she placed things such that it would do so evenly. But it really didn’t impact the felting. Now she is doing a grayscale version with some fun novelty yarn in just a few of the diamonds.

Hopefully I can report back on her second bag and also show you what size you get when using bulky yarn! Another gal who couldn’t make it to the class is using a different color of Lamb’s Pride Bulky for each square!