i just wrote a whole big-ass thing about the monkey bag and progress on it and how i found my "muppets from space" soundtrack cd, but then tblog ate the post, so now you get this substantially lamer abridged version.

here's the monkey bag being blocked after washing it.  it twists like hell, so i stabbed in some double point needles to try to hold it straight.  yes, that is a john mayer cd case... room for squares, to be exact.

i'm honestly not thrilled with the way this project is turning out so far.  i made the bag a little shorter than i probably should have, mostly because my hands just can't deal with the evil devil hemp any longer.  it's one of those really-great-in-theory sort of projects, though i'm sure it will be cute once it's all done.  just really small, but that's ok now that i have a new phone that takes up about half the purse space that my other one did.  more to come on the phone and inevitable phone-related crafty-type items.