I do so love when I get what I call a “Customer love” e-mail. So, when I opened this one from Teresa, it was rather exciting!
She purchased 6 skeins of Recycled Sarisilk and has turned it into a very beautiful “Unbiased”
She said:
“I used the original pattern for the bag, but added an extra triangle to sew into the front, and a square to sew into the back to include a flap.
I had a gold tassel which I thought went well with the colours, and I made some flowers on my flower loom and sewed them on adding a button fixed on with some gold thread.
The bag is a tiny bit on the large side, so if I did another, I would probably make it a little smaller. In the skeins I received, there was a great deal of the saffron colour (2 thirds in one skein) and as the spin was quite thin, I put 3 strands together and made a case for a mobile phone, with a small flower for decoration and a button to close.
I have to admit that I cheated a little on the last bit of the handle. I only had the bright saffron colour left, so I used a permanent marker pens to make the yarn a darker colour!”
Personally, I think it’s stunning.
Teresa made the same choice as I did when I made my Unbiased (Oh so long ago!) in adding extra panels at the mouth. Looking at her’s, the current stash of sarisilk I have makes superb knitting; it makes me want to grab a few skeins from the shop stash and make up another one for myself!
