Yarn Caddy!

A few weeks ago Jackie, Liz and I took a day trip to Portland and hit some fantastic vintage retro thrift shops in the Hawthorne District.

Such a fun day.

I scored this amazing yarn caddy!

My Great Aunt Toot has one and she taught me to knit, so of course as soon as I saw it, I fell in love with it!

But NOT the fabric. The design and colors were fine, but gak, filthy.

Note the loverly stained-sateen lining with pockets!

There was no way to remove the fabric to wash it, not without taking the frame apart, so I cut it off!

I selected some delicious fabrics from my fabric stash.

For the outside, a Kaffe Fassett beauty with my favorite colors... called Cloisonne.

For the inside, a chartreuse and purple cotton I immersion dyed a few years ago in canning jars. hmmm... that was a lot of fun to dye I should do that again and SOON.

Anyway... the fabrics love one another.

The original caddy only had pockets on one side of the lining, I decided to put them on both sides.

So I did some sketches and math-ing in my Manifesto...

and cut the fabrics, and sewed it all up.

I decided to make the attaching edges with velcro so I can take it off and wash it if I choose.

Of course I have the constant help of the studio queen Ezmaralda and her flunky Rufus.

Here they are to my left while I assembled the new fabric...

Money shot of Rufus.

He is at that goofy-kitten stage where his legs are too long and his head too small...(he's about 7-8 mos. old)

Finished!

Here is Ezmaralda inspecting it (peeking through) while I took photos of the inside. See the awesome pockets?

Rufus took his turn as inspector...

and got in to test it's strength. SO helpful.

So now I can just grab my caddy and GO! (as demonstrated by Eve).

Watch out world!