Brown Baggin' It

I'm so pleased at how this bag turned out!! This was my first really involved project where I learned to follow a cable pattern, knit seed stitches, and finally used my sewing machine (an Xmas gift from Dean) to line the bag with a vintage floral print. There were countless times when I had to rip back rows because I'd lost my place in the pattern sequence, or dropped stitches here and there. At first I was terrified that I'd unravel too much and not know how to correct it, but it was such a great sense of accomplishment when I actually figured it out. Lesson learned: the only way to fix and better understand knitting is to recognize when there is a problem, take action to work through it with grace, patience and an open-mind, and with that comes growth and sweet results. Kinda like life...