Shrimp Sushi Bag

This ebi nigirizushi is the last knitted bag I'll be making for a while. I now have enough little knitted bags to last me a lifetime.




Here is the prawn outer-pocket, pre-felted.


I'll post the pattern for this piece later. For the bag itself, I'm not entirely happy with the way the rice fabric turned out (not "ricey" enough in texture), so you'll have to wing that part. Mine is just a variation of the well-known Booga bag. I thought about knitting it in bobbles all the way around, except that I can't stand making bobbles. Another option was to try a bumpy "berry" pattern, but I was afraid all the work would be felted away.

Oh, I also made this little felted bluejay to break up the monotony of knitting the rice bag.

The pattern is from a library book, McCall's Big Book of Dolls and Soft Toys to Knit and Crochet.

The boys have been busy with the Star Wars Lego sets they got for Christmas. Here is a Richard Scarry-ish hide-out they've been building.

Some kind of intense meeting going on...

Protecting the compound, inspection and maintenance of vehicles...

It's a multicultural community of clones, ewoks, wookies, and other sentient life forms.