accidental sweater bag

My friend Lisa shrunk a sweater and was nice enough to give it to me. Accidental felting is not nearly as much fun as purposeful felting. Even though I was glad to have some new material, it really sucks when you wash yourself out of a sweater. I wanted to make Lisa a bag from her sweater. Here it is!

Lisa likes yellow, so I decided to do the the fabric accents in fabulous Denise Schmidt yellow. The wise craft flower is on a pin so it's removable, just in case Lisa isn't feeling quite so frou-frou. (I think I am often feeling more frou-frou than my friends.) This fabric pattern makes good flowers--Erin has a pretty one using the same pattern but in blue. I put a zipper in this bag because it's smaller than the other felt bags I've made and it seemed like there was a good chance that stuff would fall out of it otherwise.

Lisa is the same friend who got the kettle pot holder from a few posts back, and really I have to share some of the design credit with her there. She wanted something that looped around and tied on a button or something, and kindly suggested two of my favorite colors to work with. There will be more of these potholders in the future!