Sorbet Bag Completed!

Posted by Zyle on February 8, 2010

I was introduced to the fabulous blog of Lucy at Attic24 when one of the ladies on the Phoenix Knitting Forum made Lucy’s gorgeous bag last year.  I immediately fell in love, and had to have one of my own.  Problem was, I couldn’t crochet.  Not a single stitch.  But after weeks of failed attempts and extreme persistence, Lucy’s wonderfully clear instructions finally meant I had my own version! I was in love, it was the Best Bag Ever.  Unfortunately, my crochet was very loose and the bag unlined.  Not a winning combination – after several months of dragging it around it looked more like a fishing net.  So it has been abandoned and I’ve been crying inwardly ever since.  So I finally decided to put the countless other projects aside and make a new Attic24 bag.  This time, my stitches are tight, the handles the right length and I’ve even whipped out my sewing machine and managed to cobble together a lining!

I’m sad to say that the weather is less than pleasant, and I’m also rather unwell at the moment with food poisoning so the result is a fairly dismal photo but I hope you get the picture.  (Hopefully when nicer weather comes I will replace it with a better one.)  But here it is, my beautiful new bag!

And the lining:

It’s made of Paton’s Sorbet which is now sadly discontinued, a great shame as it’s a lovely cotton.  I got a batch of blue greatly reduced and made a tshirt from it, it’s really lovely to wear and had such gorgeous colours.  I think the name Sorbet describes it rather well!  And this bag shall, from now on, be known as my Sorbet bag.