What on earth is a "fanny pack" ?
Sue M Harvey
Norfolk UK
Where we have forecast for snow tommorrow
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From: "Joy Beeson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 4:04 PM
Subject: [lace-chat] Re: ideal knitting bag
At 03:54 PM 11/22/05 -0800, Bev Walker wrote:
Does anyone own the ideal knitting bag? I'm excluding the fancy one made
by the backpack people - that's too over the top.
Mine is exceedingly simple -- I carry my socks-in-progress wrapped in two
22" furoshikis. (Think of a furoshiki as a large handkerchief or small
cover cloth.) Size isn't critical -- 22" was as large as I could get two
of from 45" fabric.
When I want to carry more than will fit into my purse, I use a black
denim tote originally meant as a grocery bag.
The wire panniers on my bike were sized to fit a paper grocery bag; I
thought that if I had a denim tote the size and shape of a grocery bag, I
could fill it in the store, then set it down in the pannier without
re-packing anything. Alas, when packed, the bag bulges and is no longer
the same size and shape as the inside of the pannier! And if I set it
down in the pannier and then pack it, intending to be able to pull
everything out at once, some items poke out between the wires. A paper
bag inside a plastic bag worked very well -- the paper bag was stiff, and
the plastic bag provided handles -- until paper bags went out of style
and plastic bags got smaller.
But the denim tote is great as a work bag. The handles go all the way to
the bottom, the better to support heavy canned goods, and that makes four
re-inforced places where I can hang scissors etc. on safety pins.
(Knitters' coil-less safety pins, or split rings threaded into the coils
of ordinary pins.) I usually attach one part of a quick-release key ring
to the pin, and the other part to the tool.
A feature that you might consider is a detachable shoulder strap, so that
it can be converted to a handbag instead of having to transfer everything.
My shoulder-bag purse recently wore out, and I've been carrying a handbag
with no virtues beyond "I can get everything (i.e., a sock-in-progress)
into it." It's fine for shopping, but I've been taking the dumb thing to
meetings because it's more trouble to move everything into a fanny pack
than to walk a mile carrying a handbag.
I'm plotting a new bag based on my clothespin bag, which hangs over a
shoulder Sam Browne style, so that I can wear it instead of carrying it.
I've really *got* to get around to finding a suitable fabric. Pity I
didn't choose black instead of red when I bought two yards of ramie just
because I hadn't seen any for sale before. (And I haven't seen any
since.)
--
Joy Beeson
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west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A.
where we are getting our second snowfall
and our first significant accumulation.
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