Making a purse...

There are an enormous amount of very interesting artefacts in the museum I work at.

In fact, I've decided to choose a particular one every week, to vary my guided tours and also get to know the "depths of the museum" better. (wow, I just had this vision of "the bowels of the museum"!)

Anyway.

Last week it was the now famous cow crampons: I love them. It had actually never occurred to me that cows might need crampons to walk out in the winter, but of course, it totally makes sense.

This week I'm not sure what I'll choose. Maybe the cow-pat flattener. People didn't have much fuel to use here in the old days and so they would dry sheep and cow dung in the sun before throwing it into the fire. Hence the flattener, for cow pats.

But anyway, this wasn't my point.

Another of the artefacts here is a small woollen purse people used to keep money in in the old days.

Gunna, a beautiful old lady, who also happens to be the curator's younger sister, knits replicas of those for the museum shop. She used to be a crafts teacher (sewing and knitting and such) and she agreed to teach me how to make these purses. How lucky!!! :o)

Here is my first attempt. It's also my first time using such small needles (2mm dpns)

The purple one is one Gunna made, which i'm using as a reminder of what it's supposed to look like when finished... It's pretty hard to knit so tight, but I guess you get used to it.

At any rate, it's fun!

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