I am making some progress with my third market bag. The base is done, I am about 8 inches into the body and I have used up all the Raspberry yarn. I got to this point on Thursday.

Since then I have been trying to figure out exactly how to arrange the colours for the rest of the bag. I have 1.8 skeins of pink and a bit over half a skein of Khaki and until about 10 minutes ago (when I got out my measuring tape so I could tell you how much I had done) I was pretty sure I needed to use all of that. Now I am not so sure. My original plan was to knit the Raspberry until it ran out, then all of the Khaki and then all of the Pink, “keep it simple stupid” and all of that. Jesse didn’t like this idea. Jesse thought that the Khaki was beautiful with either of the other yarns but problematic with both and that the bag should have a Raspberry lip around the edge and Raspberry on the handles. I had to draw him a picture in order for him to even being to understand how complicated a lip of colour would be on a bag with handles like this. But it’s a good idea and I couldn’t let it go once he had suggested it. A day or two after I had given in and decided to do it intarsia and all I realised that I could just crochet the lip on later. So I gave it a go, and I think it will work.

Because I am slack I did my test on live stitches, I think the Raspberry stitches extending up into the pink trim looks quite interesting but I am pretty sure I will cast off before adding the trim. Then again, maybe I won’t. What do you think?

But before I get to crocheting on an edge I have to knit the rest of the bag, and that requires deciding whether to use the Khaki or not, and if so how. One stripe between the Raspberry and the Pink, or two smaller stripes inside the Pink? Please tell me what you think, I need help here… I have to finish knitting the Raspberry parts of the handles (which I am doing by slowly ripping yarn from the bag body) and then rip back a couple of rows more to put aside for the trim before I can start on the next colour so I have a day or two left to continue obsessing over this. Another idea is that I could try goign with just the Pink and if it isn’t tall enough when I run out then I can move onto the khaki and put the rasberry trim onto that… Hmm, that could look good too. Arrrgghhh…

Oh and that sleep schedule I mentioned? Went out the window when Isabelle had a TWO AND A HALF HOUR nap this afternoon. She was still up at 10:30 tonight. Ugh. There will be no more naps. Not ever.