Frogging with the Frogs

i have remarkably little knitting to show for my time in france.  i had plenty of metro and car time to knit my june project spectrum socks but for some odd reason, could not for the life of me remember how to do a picot edge.  so i did a lot of casting on, knitting, fudging the picot edge, ignoring the fact that it did not look right, kept on knitting, stopped being able to ignore that it did not look right, kept on knitting anyway, then threw down my knitting in disgust, then frogged.

i did this at least half a dozen times. 

finally i did what i should have done from the beginning, i looked it up.  duh. 

here are my project spectrum socks for june (yeah i know i'm way behind) -- the second sock knit almost entirely during our flights back.

i also knit up AND FROGGED and knit up again the saturday market bag from magknits.  although a simple project, it took me 4 tries to "get" the pattern stitch.  no it's not hard, but my hands HATED knitting yarn overs in worsted weight yarn on size 15 needles.  i ended up going down a needle size because i was not going to let such a simple pattern BREAK me.  and i needed another bag to bring home stuff in.  (of course i could have just gone out and purchased a string bag for very few euros, as an older lady pointed out to me when she saw me knitting in a cafe, but what would be the point of that....LADY!).

 
   

i also didn't kitchener the two ends of the strap together, because i couldn't believe that would hold once i had stuff in the bag, but instead bound off each strap and tied them together in a big knot. 

finally... what's this?  finished i-cord?