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Now here’s something I am really proud of.

Two weekends ago, I was browsing the Friends Activity page over at Ravelry when I came across Mimi’s Crochet Pattern Giveaway, where she generously offered two crochet patterns for free — one of her own design, and another (USD 4.00 or less) from any other Ravelry designer. Yes, this is EXTREMELY generous, and heretofore unheard-of.

After choosing Mimi’s pattern for a Cropped Pullover Cardigan, I went through the Ravelry pattern downloads and eventually found the Sunflowers Satchel designed by Asami Kawa. Mom liked it so much when I showed it to her that I went ahead and entered it in the promo.

Surprise, surprise … I was the first winner! Thank you, Mimi!

It was only last Saturday that Mom and I were able to go to VC Trading to choose her thread. She settled on three Cannon colors (dark brown, dark brown variegated, cappuccino) and one Monaco ombre (caramel). After making some test flowers, I decided to do the whole bag using one strand each of the Monaco and the Cannon (cappuccino).

The other colors have joined my stash for now, after the test flowers turned out too dark.

Me being OC, I stayed up till 3:00 on Sunday morning working on the bag, till I eventually ran out of thread. The first skeins yielded the bag body and bottom edging:

Sunday afternoon, I was able to get more of the required colors, and resumed work on the top edging, bag straps, and finishing SC’s. Two more evenings (plus yesterday’s lunch hour), and lo!

Can’t wait to see her face when she gets this.

(And again, me being OC, I will not rest until I make a similar bag for myself. Watch out for that one, and for the Cropped Pullover Cardigan following Mimi’s design.)

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