The Bump Bag and Needle Case
Wednesday 11th September 2013
The Bump Bag has been re-designed, using Rowan Felted Tweed. The result is a large and sturdy knitting bag that I think and hope will provide the reliable service I have had from the original, now about eight years old and knitted in the long-gone Yorkshire Tweed DK. Here is my new version in purple, green and dark red.
I am running two workshops (both the same, repeats) on Shibori knitted felt here this autumn, and the main star of these is the new Bump Bag for which participants will get the pattern and full instructions, as well as an opportunity to practice the Shibori I use on this design and several other Shibori skills on top, such as weaving and pleating.
The ‘bumps’ on the bag are a trick with marbles, frogs* and dew-spangled cobwebs, which I will be passing on to the lucky
cult members participants on the day.
*No frogs are harmed in this workshop.
Here are some lovely bumps:
There are two places on the October workshop and you can book a place
here if you’d like to join us. There has just been a cancellation on the September event too, which was full, but there is now one place on that, too, which you can book
here. Both these days have been full at different points this summer – but things happen and so I now have these three places going if you’d like to come along.
A bonus is the felted needle case pattern which uses every scrap of left-overs from the main bag. It is lined with a contrasting interior felted layer and the outer case is beaded on the front.
The course is packed with useful information aimed at getting you really confident about felting your hand-knitting. If, like me, you are in any way nerdy, as a bonus there is homework.
So if you fancy a really packed yet somehow mesmerically relaxing day of autumnal knitting with delicious food, come along to my Bump-athon. Yes, it is a word. It is now anyway.
I am running two workshops (both the same, repeats) on Shibori knitted felt here this autumn, and the main star of these is the new Bump Bag for which participants will get the pattern and full instructions, as well as an opportunity to practice the Shibori I use on this design and several other Shibori skills on top, such as weaving and pleating.
The ‘bumps’ on the bag are a trick with marbles, frogs* and dew-spangled cobwebs, which I will be passing on to the lucky 
There are two places on the October workshop and you can book a place here if you’d like to join us. There has just been a cancellation on the September event too, which was full, but there is now one place on that, too, which you can book here. Both these days have been full at different points this summer – but things happen and so I now have these three places going if you’d like to come along.
A bonus is the felted needle case pattern which uses every scrap of left-overs from the main bag. It is lined with a contrasting interior felted layer and the outer case is beaded on the front.
The course is packed with useful information aimed at getting you really confident about felting your hand-knitting. If, like me, you are in any way nerdy, as a bonus there is homework.
So if you fancy a really packed yet somehow mesmerically relaxing day of autumnal knitting with delicious food, come along to my Bump-athon. Yes, it is a word. It is now anyway.
This looks gorgeous – fabulous colour combo! I am looking forward to knitting this 🙂
Weirdly for once when I felted these shades the red & the green brightened rather than faded. Most unusual but very nice. See you soon 🙂 xx