Clever uses
Another picture heavy post, I’m afraid.
Saturday when I was in Woodstock with my friend, there was a little Craft Fair going on. We went in (and I, having been to other craft fairs here, didn’t expect much) and I was surprised at one seller (there were only about 10) who was selling handmade handbags! They were all really cute in nice fabrics AND REVERSIBLE. So it’s like getting two handbags in one unless of course you manage to leave a half eaten chocolate bar in the bottom of your bag. I bought mine from the actual designer (Fleur Anna) who informed me that a shop in Oxford sells them for more than TWO TIMES what she sells them for! Although, the prices on her web site are also quite a bit more than what I paid!
And while walking back and forth along the street looking for this yarn shop that went out of business two- to three years ago (you should’ve seen the look on the faces of the ladies in the information centre when I asked them about it), we spotted this shop with some very pretty Asian-themed handbags and clothes. It was all fair trade silk and the variety was amazing. I spied this very pretty water bottle holder (or small beer or wine bottle ;)) and bought it as I thought it would work perfectly for holding a ball of yarn and needles (and pattern) for socks.
See, quite often I get on a train and have to stand part of the journey and this has a long strap so it enables me to put down my heavy bag and just keep this out and keep knitting! It also keeps everything from getting tangled up with the other contents of my bag (I generally carry my knitting in ziploc bags with one corner cut off to feed the yarn through). I don’t know if I’m the first to do this or not, but I thought it was really clever of me hahaha. The lady I bought it from was like “You’re going to put knitting… in this? It’s made for a bottle. A little bottle. What are you knitting?”
How the holder was intended — How I’ve decided to use it
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Comments
I like the water bottle/knitting holder. Very clever idea and stylish to boot! The reversible bag is adorable. It reminds me of the preppy purses from the 80’s where you could button on a new cover or two.
Posted by: Ava | July 3rd, 2007 14:49
hey, you’ve been doing some tweaking in here!! I was just here earlier this morning and now it’s all brand spankin’ new in here! lol. cute knitting bag!
Posted by: rhoda | July 3rd, 2007 19:57
Hello from a German fellow knitting Librarian!
That’s a gread idea with the “knitting holder”! I would copy it but I haven’t seen such nice water bottle holders here so far …
Posted by: Christina | July 11th, 2007 07:41