Just before Christmas I visited a great shop in downtown Vancouver, Birkeland Bros. and a terrific man helped me greatly with needles and yarn … I had not yet begun a project … I was in the very new stage … I saw a bag there and thought it rather big so I didn’t buy it … didn’t really care for the color of black/gray … though my hubby liked it …
So the last week or so I’ve been researching bags and even had a great topic running on the Proverbial knitting bag search … got some great ideas and wore my fingers to the bone on Ebay … bought three tote type thingies locally and each one went back … my last one, a Claiborne bag was too big … my daughter said I looked like one of those spies that walks through the airport carrying a small suitcase and sets it down so someone else can pick it up and keep walking with it or the bag explodes … I said “but I WAS a spy! It’s residual behavior” … she said “mom, put the bag down” … I did, underneath a mannequin … my daughter nearly died … she said “I hope you didn’t use explosive yarn” … 17 year olds are all comedians.
I am a member of the meetup for Vancouver knitters and today we had an afternoon meetup in the city … I am 40 mins from the city but I went and met with 9 knitters in a great cafe in Yaletown downtown … the man from Birkeland Bros is a member and he was at the meetup … he wrote out my pattern for me in long hand (my shawl that I keep messing up) and showed me how to read the parts in between parenthesis for repeats etc … well I decided that I would go on my way to the meetup to Birkeland Bros and see if the bag was still there … it was so I bought it … it’s by Dritz “St Jane” collection and it’s great … haven’t seen it online and this shop only carries one at a time as they are not huge movers … it has three pockets on each outside and one needle case on each end plus a very roomy inside with a pocket area … real sturdy tapestry material …
But now I need Namaste needles … :teehee:
Toby
