I wanted something to do with some scrap yarn so I whipped out a blanket bag. It small enough to fold up and take with you yet big enough to toss in a few things to keep your hands free when you go.
Just pull 2 or 4 corners of the strap and pull and its a bag!
It was knitted with size 10mm cable needles and double worsted weight yarn. I used two colors together, browns shades with green.
The blanket body is knitted using just knit/purl/yo.The trim going around is crocheted using just dc. The strap is just some bias tape I had laying around.
The blanket is 24″ square.

Blanket

Toss on your stuff.

Pull straps on 2 or 4 corners.

And go!

I decided to give my homemade spindles a make over!
I created my spindles myself. I wanted custom done ones that could spin very light weight fiber as thin as thread. The spindles are made from pine to keep them very light weight.

Old Look

New Look

Here are my homemade spindles for hand spinning. I made them because I couldn’t find any that were similar to this design. I like that I can evenly fill the space between the disk so I have approximately the same amount of yarn on each spindle. I ply in 3’s and its nice when   the amount of single ply is close. Filling all six spindles results in 2, large, 3 ply balls of yarn.
Transferring the yarn to my wheel for plying is easy. I prefer to hand spin because my spinning can go everywhere I go. I can even spin while riding in the car!

Here are some more pics of my first cowl. Its a wide hoodie at the top and narrows down. Its the perfect balance of had wrap and scarf wrap. My son is reluctantly modeling for me.