A reconstruct- Sweater to Felted bag extrodinaire!!!

This bag was made for a personal crafting swap with a friend from a simply gorgeous wool sweater I found in a thrift store. It was alomst to hard to felt because it was in such great shape. But I braved up and did it and am in love with how the bag turned out.
Im sorry I didnt take before shots ( dont know how I forgot that vital part!) But here is the finished product.

• For those of you not familiar with  the term “felting”, knitty.com descibes it in part as:  The properties of wool that make it felt so easily, can also be used to our advantage. The reason woolen items felt, with water and agitation, is that the scales on the wool swell, rub against each other and bind together, creating a denser, shrunken fabric.” Which is what we refer to as felt!

Im sure many of us have had experiences of shrinking a favorite wool sweater on accident but this was actually done on purpose!
I bought some spiffy handles which I think suit the style of the bag perfectly, added a magnetic closure – did the detailing on the bag with red thread to have it stand out against the black and accented with a red wood button. I then lined it with some very sweet sunglass fabric.
This was my first felted reconstruction project and comments are welcome! Enjoy!

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