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I’m working on the Flower Basket Shawl it’s a fun little knit, originally I planned doing it on size 5 needles using a single ply of yarn, but I ended up frogging it and using the doubled yarn on size 7s. As is it’s still a very small shawl but I plan on giving it to Lexi when I’m done and she’s a very small person.

Since I have to tink back a few rows I’m not exactly in the mood to photograph my progress at the moment.

I’ve also been doing some linen dyeing and a little spontenious sewing. This is a ruck sack that I made with some of the fabric. The patterning on the fabric is a bit overwhelming so I kept the design of the bag as simple as possible, I tend to like it much more now that it’s been sewn up.

At 12 inches high and 22 inches around, the bag is a nice size for the fabric, I don’t think it would have worked so well visually if I’d gone much larger. The draw-string and the straps are one in the same, it can’t be seen in the picture but at the bottom of the sack there are buttons and the ends of the drawstring have button holes so it can be unbuttoned and carried, or buttoned and worn like a backpack.

Since I’m a little obsessive about finishing it’s fully lined with undyed linen.