Resurected Hobbies

So what do you do when you are busy growing a baby and you don't have the energy to do anything that involves moving major body parts. Find a hobby or in my case resurrect an old one. I never did much in the way of knitting, wash clothes and scarfs were about the extent of my ability, but over Christmas my mother encouraged me to try something new. So I did and Amelia got a new pair of socks (which she loves and wears right out of the drier and for three days after). She is modeling them in this picture. The second project was a knitting a bag for my mother's birthday. I didn't have a pattern so I made one up which is not the best idea but after starting over many times I finally got something I liked. The best part of this project was the felting. If you use 100% wool and do all the things your not supposed to do to it like wash with soap in hot water it will shrink down to a very tight weave. As you can tell I started to wash it then decided to take a picture so it is a little damp in the first picture. But the two pictures give you an idea of after only 15 minutes in the water how much it shrinks.