Long, long ago, when I lived in MD, I started to knit myself a pair of hand warmers. I got the pattern from one of Suss Cousins books. It required that you knit 2 pieces for each hand warmer and sew them together. I made two pieces. I got tired. I set them aside. Later I came back and instead of making 4 pieces total, I doubled each piece and only made two. Then I sewed them up as per half the instructions in Suss's book and called it a day. It was vastly easier for me to do it my way than hers.
Now, I don't actually throw anything away. I kept those 2 pieces that were to have been hand warmers. I dragged them over hill and dale during the subsequent moves. I recently unearthed them. For the trip to WV to pick up the very final and last of our stuff, the small still raucous voice in my head demanded I take my wolf oracle cards. Now all I have for these poor babies is the box they came in--that was just not enough. Mostly because I knew I would keep the cards in my purse so I wouldn't misplace them--and I know I cram all sorts of stupid stuff in my purse and forget about it til way too later. Like, half and half creamers from McDonald's for the kids--that, by the way, do get squashed and crushed OPEN-which is just horrible--but we won't go there right now. Yes, the voice of experience here.
When I get really nervous and then give myself a dead-line for something--like say, I'm about to drag my 7yo and my best friend 9 hours 1 way to pick up who knows how much stuff and drive back on a 2 day drive and I want to knit myself a little bag for my cards the day or so before we leave for said trip.......I freeze. There was no way in Hades I would have been able to knit a scarf--much less a bag--in that time. Yes, crochet could have been an option, but for some reason, it was not.
I thought about it--found my 2 pieces of not hand warmers--and decided to grab some white yarn. I single crocheted around the two sides and left an overhanging flap at the top to close the bag. I was pondering closures: buttons, ribbons, velcro. I decided none of those things. I just didn't like the way it felt. I folded the flap over and tucked it inside the bag with the cards. Voila. Card bag done. I am about to take the other not hand warmer and do the same thing again, except this time I will pay more attention to catching both sides of those slipped selvedge edge stitches, to use for my Spirit Oracle deck (this is a deck I use that is two other similar decks combined--they are far more effective together than singularly).
So here are the pictures of the original bag and the left over not hand warmer.
