I have this bag, as we all do, that I bring with me everywhere. The current one, they change often, is a quilted bag I made at a quilt retreat a few years ago. It is a nice big size with big pockets. Lots of big pockets are great to keep "stuff" in. The problem is you lose "stuff" in them. I bring my bag everywhere, even to the grocery store. You never know when you are going to get stuck behind a lady counting coupons, that is prime crocheting time!
Are you feeling adventurous? Lets take a look into the bag, shall we? On top we find one finished sock and a second, started in the same pattern but a different yarn. I am making class samples for Yarn Harbor. (That is my excuse this week for Single Sock Syndrome) The new list of classes will be out this week and I have to have all my samples up on the wall. I also made samples swatches for the Intro to Crochet class. I have a piece I started playing with. I do not know what it will become. Right now it is a circle motif with no finish. Hmmm I will have to put some more thought into it.
Digging deeper we find a project I need to finish for a baby shower next week. I can't say what it is cuz, she says she reads my blog and, well I want it to be a surprise. Oh wow I found a skein of yarn I have been carrying around for several weeks from an abandoned project, I guess that one can come out. A Sock book and two sock patterns. Well maybe I should make the second sock one of these days. Yarn for the second socks.
Two books of post it notes. Why can't I ever find them when I am looking for them? OWWWWWWW! X$#%#%^&%$%#$^& OK, so I found that wayward needle I dropped in the bag a week or so ago. Don't let anyone tell you that a blunt tip needle can't draw blood! I can prove them wrong. Hey, I forgot I bought a mini pack of highlighters. Cool! They were in with all the back to school stuff and just so danged cute I could not pass. I am a sucker for that kind of stuff. Drop me off at an Office Max or a Staples and I could spend days just wondering the post it and pens section. Yeah I'm kinda geeky that way I know.
I have no less than 12 balls of yarn in my bag right now, I am using 3 of them. I guess some of them can come out, besides they have sort of become tangled around each other and now look like a fiber monster with several heads. The bag to my rain poncho? That must be left over from Bayfront Blues Festival. My notebook that I keep meticulous notes on my projects, (I am of course laughing as I write that!) Example of one of my notes: chain 64 Turn Single every 4 No Idea what it was. I seemed to stop part way through and never labeled what I was making, what yarn I used or even which size hook. But, by god I have the notebook with me if I do decide to keep notes. I also have every size hook I own, and not just one of each size!! I may some day decide to crochet with my feet at the same time and need another size hook.
No wonder my bag weighs 14 pounds and my shoulder droops lower then the other one. I think I need a good massage!! Oh well no time to clean up everything I just pulled out I will just throw it back in the bag and the next time I am looking for that needle I will know it is in there somewhere. Jeeze I did not even get to the pockets.... tomorrow is another day.
