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The Persian Carpet Bag progresses.

Front:


Back:


I remember being so frustrated at my first intarsia project, a cow with a few simple spots. I had the yarn wound onto plastic bobs, and the bobs kept getting tangled. I'm beginning to think that large areas of simple color may be a bad beginning intarsia project; I much prefer working on the carpet bag. Such a project teaches you that attempting to control the tangle of yarn is not a worthwhile endeavor. The more time you spend winding yarn into bobs or butterflies, the more time you will have to spend untangling it. Halfway into a Persian carpet, you achieve a zen-like state of apathy about your tangled mass; either that, or you go completely nuts and have to be carted away in a straitjacket.

Using wool yarn helps; I spit-splice constantly. Even so, I'll have to weave in a million ends when I'm done. What's another hundred?

I finished it


And then I blocked it


And it's a persian carpet.


Now, time to weave the ends in, and knit the rest of the bag (patterned borders, lining, handles).