Crochet and WOW! and lots of references to Martine

I am crocheting like a madwoman, trying to get lots of stuff for the stall I am doing at the Celebrate festival. Hats, headbands, choker necklaces, and hopefully a few little bags. I am getting very good at lots of different kinds of flowers. But I cannot seem to focus on much of anything else.

So I am distracting myself, by doing my favourite thing, looking at patterns on Ravelry.  Have come across this on somebody's blog and it is bloody wonderful. Attention any felters who are reading this (waving to Martine) but GO THERE NOW!

Here are some flowers...

Here is some lovely yarn, that Martine spun for me and was my 44th Birthday present!

And here is Martine, reading a pattern book with The Babe. :-)

Old Bag

So I have wanted to felt myself a bag for a long time, and watching all of Martine's posts about felt, finally motivated me.  I had some 100% wool from Dragon yarns, which I had bought years ago for doing re-enactment stuff. Some of it had been used to make Viking socks - naalbinding- and doing tablet weaving for belts and things.
So I had red, yellow, orange, green, and some dark blue from New Lanarkshire. I spent ages on Ravelry looking for patterns, and in the end I made one up. Also in the end, I decided to limit the colours, as all those squares were looking weird.
So I crocheted some circles in squares and crocheted them together and ended up with this.

After a couple of washes, it looks like this.

And I am quite happy with it. I would like to think I will get around to lining it, and adding a zip or poppers, but I think I know myself well enough to know that won't happen.