Another bag

Before Christmas I made another fairly quick bag.  I loved the fabric that I used.  I almost always use stash fabrics from past projects, planned-but-never-finished projects or donations from others who know I'll eventually find a use for it. 

 It was nice to sew with new fabric for a change.

The idea was to create a knitting bag.  The request was for "something to carry projects in that looks better than the current grocery bag that I'm using".  It wasn't tough to improve on a grocery bag, but I'm not a knitter.

Every bag needs a zippered pocket somewhere.  In this case, I thought maybe she would carry those little knitting counter thingy-s, or cable thingy-s or circular needles.  I don't really know. 

 

I do know that knitters occasionally use those pointy sticks.  On the inside I made long sleeves to store some of those pointy sticks.  It's hard to see, but they had to be angled in order to make the bag a smaller size.  I didn't want the bag as deep as the needles.  

This is the only thing that makes this bag different than a regular book bag or messenger bag.  It's silly to be proud of my knitting needle pockets, but there you have it.  I'm silly.