Hmmm... I need a new purse.

Yeah my purse fell apart on me about 2 weeks ago. I was able to temporarily stitch it back together but that's not going to hold. So I've decided to make a purse. I looked obsessively online for patterns but didn't see any I liked over much. I have four skeins of Lamb's Pride worsted weight, two in Onyx and two in Blue Blood Red. Originally, I was going to make some socks out of this for a friend, but he never told me how long his feet were, so I scrapped that project. Plus worsted weight wool socks for a guy would be too hot. Since I didn't find any patterns I just knit up a swatch on the reccomended needles (5 mm/US 8) from the label, out of the Onyx. I like the idea of using the red but I'm not too sure about it because I don't wear a lot of red. I may use it for embelishment though. I don't know yet. Now I've never felted or fulled anything before. I really like it. The swatch's original dimensions were 6 in x 6 in. It has a garter stitch border and stockinette center. I wanted to see how the different stiches would felt. The stockinette portion was 4.5 in x 4 in. I was getting 4 stitches to the inch. I washed the swatch 3 times. The swatch now measures in total 4.25 in x 4 in, and the stockinette portion is 3 in x 2.5 in. There is absolutely no stitch definition at this point which makes the measure for the stockinette bit hard. So now I'm going to create a purse based on the dimensions of my actual purse. It will be interesting.

Yay!

This is an old Yay! \O/ but still a reason to celebrate. I got my CSQ last week. Which means Quebec is okay with me immigrating here. It's a great thing. In knitting news I haven't finished much of anything lately. I started a sweater for Louis-Alexandré and I can't remember when I started it, but it was supposed to be done by the end of April. I started the March sock kit from Robyn's Nest in April, and still haven't finished it. Those socks are for me. Plus I started a pair of plain stockinette stocks in Regia Fadig for myself as well and havem't finished them either. So yeah I really need to get out of this slump and get my butt in gear. Other than that things are good.