Tote Bag by Graciela Worth

so this week in the loom knitters classroom, we had a tote pattern by Ms. Graciela Worth. now, i must admit, i've been a part of the classroom for just about a year and i only actually finished one project, the ribby gloves by Laura Campion. i see all these wonderful projects come through but i just never have the time to do them, or, if i start, i never finish them. yep, miss UFO is my name!
but this week the project seemed really cute and i had really been wanting to try a purse of some sort. lucky for me, my boyfriend gave me an A.C. Moore gift card as one of my birthday presents and so i hopped on over there earlier this week and bought a purse handle along with some new crochet hooks and buttons. but,of course A.C. Moore didn't have the exact handle i wanted (in fact, they only had TWO styles in the WHOLE store! what?!), so i drove five minutes over to Joanne's, and of course they had exactly what i wanted and then some! its never the first store you go to, right?! so i ended up spending money anyways and buying 2 other purse handle sets and a few of those solid rings you can use to connect the purse with that handle. i figured i could knit a handle to match a purse as well this way.
i started knitting the tote on Tuesday, i think, and i finished it up today (Friday)! it was suppose to be 40 rows of a garter stitch using the e-wrap, but i really don't like the look of garter, so i did about 50 rows of my modified rib stitch, which is turning out to be my favorite.
my yellow loom is already marked off with rubber bands. its two knits and one purl. but then i like to turn the product inside out. i know it seems weird. you might ask why i just don't do two purls and one knit in the first place, but it just doesn't look the same! i've tried! and i'll admit i have a thing with turning things inside out.
of course there are a PLETHORA of mistakes! LOL! as usual i was watching TV whist knitting and i messed up on the pattern. i seem to automatically default to purl stitches when i'm distracted! LOL! so on two different rows, you can see where i continued purling when i should have been knitting. i decreased way too much on the part where the yarn wraps around the handle. its suppose to be much wider, but i totally messed up. oh well. and the biggest mistake? i put the flipping handles on backwards!!!! you know how one side is flat and one side is rounded and the flat sides are suppose to be facing each other on the inside of the purse? well, i managed to sew BOTH handles in the wrong way! i was almost tempted to turn the bag bag right-side out to make the handles right, but in the end, i went with my quirky little error. and because the handles are shaped like ovals,i can have them either horizontal or vertical. i'm thinking about anchoring the handles by wrapping them in yarn later so they stay one way, but that's way off. i was also thinking about lining the bag, but i can't find a material i like enough yet.
the pics aren't the greatest quality, the color looks washed out in a lot of them. once again, i had to use my camera phone cause i can't find the battery charger for my digital camera! arg!!! i took a pic of the bag against my granite table cause i thought the natural colors of the bag against the stone looked so cool together.
so, without further ado, here are the pics of my cute little bag!