I'm pretty sure I've made a carpet bag (hence the Steppenwolf title). I've been looking at the bag for the last week and it finally hit me what it resembles yesterday. Its big, roomy and slouchy and has a woolly outer layer. Of course that's not how the project started out.....
A couple of months ago I purchased the Japanese book 'Carry Me' which has some beautifully crafted bags in it that apparently us mere mortals could attempt to make. I was sold on the first bag on the list....the Boston Bag. A wool tweed bag which had class, sophistication and has only two main pattern pieces.
I made it. I got through July in almost one piece. I may be slightly pasty faced from a complete lack of sun (or at least as pasty faced as some one with an olive complexion can get....its more a jaundiced looking yellow), chocolate consumption may have exceeded an all time record even for me (is anyone else campaigning for chocolate eating as the next olympic sport?), and there may have been a few tears and mental health days along the way but we finally got through the commissioning of the new stage of our alumina refinery. The excitement has died down and life will hopefully return to some sense of normalacy.
But before I lock July up and throw away the key, I have to admit it wasn't all work. I did slip in one sewing project along the way and it literally took the whole month to do. Now what project could I have possibly picked to do in July. Well of course being smack bang in the middle of winter here in the southern hemisphere I naturally picked my next project to be.......
a winter coat, I hear your ask.....nope.
how about a maxi dress, that could be weather appropriate.........no, not this time
or could it have possibly been some tracksuit pants, that could be warm and comfy........well no didn't make those either.
No, instead I chose to make a pair of shorts......a pair of short shorts......Kwik Sew 3854 to be precise. In hindsight I have no idea why I picked this pattern or why I chose to do something that I knew would be very hard for me to do in a month where there was a good chance of me going slightly bananas from work. But none the less, I have made a pair of shorts.
