It's Got Pursinality

When we last left the world of the Mangy Cat Hair Scarf the Princess had taken a liking to it's scratchy plasticky ikyness. There was only one way to extricate this acrylic nightmare status from her grips.

Bribery.
That's right - I bribed my child to get back something I knit ugly and badly.

I proposed a trade
CM: Princess, you don't really want that scarf, you have a lot of scarves that are so much nicer, what else would you like.
Princess: A purse
(definitely my child)

I rummaged through the stash and came up with several yarn options & their corresponding patterns and presented them to her. She chose a skein of Brown Sheep Naturespun in the Spring Break Colorway and the Sophie pattern from Magknits.

I have knit Sophie before so I knew there were a few modifications I would make to the pattern for Princess. I got busy working up the bag, making it a little deeper than mine so she would have plenty of room to hold a book and other pre-teen purse items. When I came to the handle I knew the I-cord handle wouldn't take the weight of Princess's stuff so I came up with a cabled handle which I knit long enough to wear over her shoulder.

Pre Felting



















I ran the bag through the washer once - loved how the handle looked, but not the density of the bag. So I fooled around with boiling just the bag, running it through the dryer, and using the steam setting on my iron to get it just right.

Both the Princess & I are very pleased.















Hopefully the Mangy Cat Hair Scarf didn't come to life, crawl it's way out of the garbage bag it was in & scare the trash man.

*Totally Cross posted at the other joint ;)