My friend Reda (who doesn't have a blog) just finished two felted purse projects. I don't have anything interesting in the knitting department, so I'm extremely pleased that she has some wonderful projects to share.

A neat french market bag.

And one of the cover purses from the book Pursenalities. The buttons are missing because she will be making her own custom glass buttons to match the purse. (cool!)

note: Reda knits, crochets, makes hand-made glass beads, collects vintage sewing machines...until she gets her own site up and running, I'm lucky to be able to share some of her projects.

Also - last weekend I had the pleasure of spending a fibery afternoon and evening with the adorable Rachel. She just started spinning on a drop spindle and quickly learned how to use the wheel as well. She spun up some beautiful, slubby green and blue yarn - and from what I hear she's got more spinning project progress to report. Now I'm trying to learn how to spin like she does!