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UPDATE:  The Starling Handbag crochet pattern for the purse above is now available on the free downloads page.  Yay!
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After getting the box o' yarny love from Shannon last weekend, I *had* to do some crocheting.  The package contained a wonderful variegated yarn that I really wanted to see as a handbag.  There was some major blue-pooling when I was doing the base which I wasn't loving (see bottom right in photo).

I noticed that the green didn't look like it was pooling, just the blue.  Like one was negative and one was positive.  There was a skein of green in the box, too, so I decided to do every third row in the green to break up any potential blue-pooling issues.  It worked like a charm!

Did you notice the solid green rows before I told you about them?  I started and finished this on Saturday.  How long do you think it will take me to find the perfect lining fabric?  My money's on late November.