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Ghost House bag

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MistWraith
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Ghost House bag

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This bag was quite the learning experiance.

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The base is crocheted yarn.

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The lining is felt sewn onto the yarn with more yarn. It has velcro to hold the inside pouch sht.

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The Ghost on the outside is yarn done with a slanted gobelin stitch on plastic mesh on a pixel by pixel basis. I whip stitched black around the outside of the plastic edge for a more finished look

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The outer flap lifts up to expose the innner and outer pocket.

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The Moon (3up!) is cross stitched yarn on plastic backing with whip stitched edgeing.

The outer pouch is sized to hold a PSP, DS, DS Light, I-phone, Crackberry or digital camera. The inside could hold the contents of a purse, a couple of good paperbacks, 1 good sized hardback, or some dvds. It has hoops to put a strap on it or you could put a belt through it and wair it around your waist.

What the wife and I learned: It's hard to get a good finished edge with felt. No matter how hard you try some yarn ends will fray and always at the most visible/annoying point. Iron on velcro will attach to felt, but not at all to yarn.
I can't even begin to tell you how long this took. We had to pull it apart so many times becuase things weren't lining up right. We're working on a few more models for selling purposes, but this prototype is staying put. I put to much time in it...plus it still has all the little mistakes that go into a new design from scratch.

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