Bag swap

The bag swap was a great idea, I love bags and it’s always nice to receive one. When Lori notified me I was preparing a bag for Keren I started laughing, from all the ladies participating I get to make a bag for a woman that sews great bags herself, quite a challenge I must say. I had a few ideas and eventually decided to knit a bag in spring pastel colors, I started off making one thing and ended up doing something else as always (-: It's my own design, has a fabric lining inside and is made of a fiber that's 70% organic cotton and 30% bamboo.


Added a card as well

Have a great summer Keren, I love the bag you made for Nili, it's gorgeous!

Japanese Knot bag

Every day when I go out of my office to have lunch I take a few necessities with me, I'm a woman what can I say, my men colleagues just put their wallet in their pocket, I need my cellular phone, my wallet, my company name tag and Kleenex as I’m forever with a cold or some kind of allergy. Some of the above I put in my pockets, some I carry by hand, when I’m wearing a dress and have no pockets I have my hands full, this has been going on for years until I came across this fabulous tutorial for a Japanese Knot bag, just what I need!
Adilee posted the link in one of the forums I participate in as part of the bags swap we're having.
I love it, it’s just what I was looking for, my new “lunch bag”.

Pillowcase bag

I saw a pillowcase bag on Maya's blog (in Hebrew), it's one of Martha Stewart's classics (this one is in English of course).

My mother has a shelf full of pillowcases she brought from the USA thirty years ago, they are quite old fashioned but I thought with some embellishments this one could work as a bag. The basic bag is very easy to make (see Martha's illustration) and I suppose if you make it out of a gorgeous pillow case it wouldn't need any embellishments at all, mind you if I had a gorgeous pillow case I'm quite sure I wouldn't want to cut it up and make a bag out of it (-:

The henhouse met on Thursday and it was a good opportunity to try it out, thanks girls for your support as always, the laughs and the excellent food!

As the pillow case I used needed additional zest I created a pocket in front and added some ribbons and a gigantic button that did the trick and gave it the look I was looking for. I also created longer straps as I think it's more convinient.

I'm pleased, it will make a sweet summer tote, now I have an urge for some more totes, comming soon (-: