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I recently bought a refurbished Macbook Pro with a 17" monitor. I absolutely LOVE the thing, and I'm so happy I decided to go with a laptop, and sell or get rid of my desktop computer. I haven't done so yet, but once James and I move into our little house, it'll be necessary for the desktop to go away.
To honor my new laptop, I've decided to design it a felted laptop bag. I really don't have very much experience with felting, so I'm somewhat nervous as to how this is going to end up. If it doesn't fit, oh well, I'll still have a pretty neet bag, and I can try again. None-the-less, the process of making this has been pretty fun so far.
I installed Knit Visualizer on the laptop on Friday and drew up the chart you can see in the image above. Generally I'll use Illustrator for all my charting needs, but I used Knit Visualizer this time because I really wanted to be able to see how the design would look in the felted gauge... and that's something I haven't yet been able to adjust in the grid in Illustrator. If anyone knows how, I'd love to hear it! :)
I'm almost done the knitting part. Just about 2 more inches to go. Then I seam and felt! Oh, how exciting. Hopefully I can finish it today... but I do need to go look for a door for the little house at some point.
Speaking of the little house. James and I have some more updates on our escape-from-density blog.
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