Momma’s Got A Brand New Bag….

Literally.

I for the first time in my life, have a “fancy” purse. Now go figure that for my first proper purse it ends up being a knitting bag! ha! My lovely husband got me a gift card for the Purple Purl. I knew I didn’t want anymore yarn (crazy huh) because I had a TON and needed to destash. What I REALLY wanted was a set on interchangeable needles. I looked at what the Purl had and I really wanted the Knit Picks ones and those… they didn’t have. So I immediately set my eyes on the lovely knitting bags. It was down to the the clutch purse or the messenger bag.  I’ve always had messenger bag types of purses and the thought of having something as pretty as an old school snap top on my purse made me swoon. I very quickly decided that I wanted the Jordana Paige bag in the teal :)

Ladies and gents… my new baby:

I’m going to use it as my all around main purse. I’ve been using my diaper bag as a purse so I’m sure you can just imagine how excited I am :) I’m going to use the front pocket for my wallet/keys/phone and then the main area for my knittings :) I hope to still be able to knit on my lunch when I go back to work. I foresee a lot of socks in my future! lol

I would also like to announce that i’m now the proud owner of my very own set of the before mentioned Knit Picks interchangeable needles!!! I was at my favorite “omg look at all this yarn” outlet type store – Sew Knit N’ Surge – and they had them there. I was there just after Christmas and saw that they had a boxing week sale on all their yarn. I asked Peter, the owner, if they’re needles were on sale. I think he saw me oogling the set… he asked me if I wanted the Knit Picks set. I very coyishly nodded yes. He looked at me and said “you know what? you really want these don’t you? You should have them… I’ll give you 30 percent off” I just about died!!! So that day, I brought home my new needles :) When I go back to work I hope to get more extender packs for the needles.

In other news… I’ve managed to finish one of my brother’s socks! yay!!!!

I’m hoping to get the second done more quickly :) I also want to learn how to knit toe up socks so that I know exactly how much yarn I have left for the leg instead of guessing. Drives me insane to have little balls left knowing that I could have used it! If I finish the second one in decent time then I will cast on a second pair in this super fun Lion Brand sock yarn

The first pair will be his ‘serious’ socks… these will be his ‘fun’ socks :) I cant wait to see how awesomely bright they will be!

I’ve also managed to get 3 lace repeats done on my mom’s Travelling Woman Shawl:

I’m not sure that I will do the whole 11 repeats. Last one that I made with all the repeats barely fit on my queen size bed for blocking! ha! We’ll see how it goes.

I hope you all have a great weekend! I’m off to go organize my stash. I feel a huge Stash Bust Army mission coming on :)