Custom Knitting Tote Accessories Completed

What a day!  What I thought would only be a couple hour job in finishing up the accessories to go with that custom knitting tote in my previous post – turned into a 5 hour gig!  Holy moly.

Plus, I’m not the sharpest pencil in the computer or IT box, so it took me over an hour to stop trying to FIX the embroidery computer program, and just give up and uninstall it.  After installing the program again, the machine and computer were talking again and all was good in the hood.  Why must they argue so?  giggle

Ugh - on many levels - ugh

So it was time to program the words I wanted to put on the knitting bag accessories I’d planned….  here goes….

Yep, that says "Straights"

And yep, "Circs" for sure. My love sister is not getting a DPN accessory bag. She'll have to deal with it.

It's a basic make-up bag, but I made it bigger so hopefully all those bags of circular needles will fit in it. If not, she'll figure out what to use it for.

My disaster just beginning to happen. Thank goodness for sisters who don't mind being guinea pigs. It looks great here but....

When I centered the wording, I forgot completely about how a 'fold down' needed to happen at the top so the needles won't fall out. OK, Lesson Learned. But it ain't over yet.....

... the wording was put on the wrong side, or the ribbon ties were put on the wrong side. Whichever, when it rolls up like it should, no word is seen. ARGH!!!!!

So now that I’ve learned a tremendous amount about these little accessories, next time it won’t be so traumatic for me.    I really wanted these items to be spot on, but hopefully next time they will be.

But at least the computer and sewing machine are talking again.  *sigh*  And now my sister’s package is ready to mail out to her.  Let’s hope it passes the test.