Orange Felt

Another beautiful piece by Lettuce. hand-knitted and felted - knitted with 5 or 6 strands of wool mixing my own colours & using yarn leftovers, charity shop finds etc.
Vintage fabric and button.

Personally, I think we should adapt the words "charity shops" here in Canada. Isn't it adorable?

And isn't that child adorable? She's the cuddliest thing that ever showed up on my back porch.

So, I'll reiterate. This is a felted wool bag. Not in the sense that I might attempt- using a wool sweater from a charity shop; felting it in the washer and dryer; then fashioning it into a bag-like shape. What lettuce did was to KNIT a bag; then felt it. Imagine the work in that!

There are two knitted pockets on the interior, and one on the exterior.

Even the straps are knitted in a continuous pattern from the bag body.

The bag fastens with a knitted closure and a vintage, English button.

Very distinguished.

I'm going to leave this bag up for grabs until 7:00 am cst tomorrow morning.

In other news.... I received a marvelous e-mail in my inbox this morning from a fellow soccer mom and blog reader. She has "connections" and was able to get an interpretation for yesterday's bag.

"Tumbili/Tumbiri "is a type of a monkey. "Akikosa" means to err or make a mistake. The word hence maybe a saying or a proverb .i.e When a monkey errs.....or When a monkey makes a mistake....."

I don't know about you... but that conjures up a whole lot of scenarios for me. Especially with the whole daycare career choice and all...