Percolations

Knitting Project #1 | February 11, 2010

I love making things. I love being able to take a piece of thread and two sticks and create. A hat to keep loved ones warm, an iPod cozy for those cold days when my poor iPod is shivering, a bag to carry my journal in, and funky scarves that make people smile.

I think man, being made in God’s image, was designed to create. I can’t tell you how many people I’ve heard describe this urge, this longing. Sure, they all use different words and metaphors to talk about it and most of the time, the fulfillment of this desire looks entirely different from one person to the next…but it’s still there.

Anyway. Seeing as how I was made in God’s image, I figure it would be a pretty swell idea to let some of my creative juices flow. Thus, the Zeeby bag:

Hopefully mine will come out looking as cute as this one, though I admit my knitting skills have withered a bit since not being put to good use over the past months. Also, I’m using a different yarn. It’s pink, yellow and white. Yarn Bee’s Highland Thistle: Galloway to be exact. But sadly, I couldn’t find a picture of it online to show you how it radiates awesomeness.

I’ll be posting pics of the bag as I make it. Not for your entertainment of course, but for my own. : )

P.S. I got the pattern out of one of my favorite knitting books:

Ah, it’s fabulous. If you want to try your hand at knitting (ha! pun intended), then you should pick up a copy of this bad boy.