During the saga of "The Shawl," I have been forced to seek tiny, cute, easy little projects that don't make me sigh and/or scream. I popped into an LYS (although not really "local" to me) and found a cute and free pattern for a little felted pouch made of ONE skein of Noro Kureyon. Now, the magic words there were: FREE pattern, ONE skein, and FELTED. I was all over that.
I purchased my one skein of Noro Kureyon #163, which was a very very pretty mix of colors (and, interestingly, some of the colors are hidden from view when you purchase it, so parts of the bag were a surprise, which was actually kind of fun).
I knit this in less than 5 hours total. It would have been more like 2 if the knitting time was uninterrupted (stupid life). I ran it through the washer twice for felting and there you have it. It dried in less than 24 hours, and it took 20 or so minutes to sew on the button and cut off all the fuzzies. Total cost was less than $10.
