Just a few weeks ago I finished this tote bag as a project carry-all for craft night with my friends. This was a major stash-busting project- more so than I anticipated! I began with almost a full skein of some cheap medium-weight sage green yarn (I forget the brand) and a decent amount of some similar lavendar yarn. Then I found this pattern on the Lion Brand yarn website (one of my favorite places to find patterns, if you haven't noticed).I thought I'd have about enough yarn to finish the project, but as I started going along, I realized I would run out of the green yarn. SO I thought I would be sneaky and try to tuck a too-bright-for-my-taste goldenrod yellow yarn inside each pocket. Then I decided to sew in a lining so that you couldn't tell the difference from the inside. This got me a little further, but I was still running low! So I incorporated some other colors and mix-and-matched my way to a complete bag. No joke, I had less than a foot left of each yarn once I made a few flower embellishments. Stash-busting project indeed!
After all the stress of sparing every length of yarn that I could, I am happy with the result! Having added more colors makes the bag more interesting and fun. A great project for early spring.
For the flower embellishments, I got the large flower pattern from here, the blue flower from here, and the dark purple one from here (I added a french knot of yellow yarn in the center). For the lining, I again used this tutorial.
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