Most of you say that you want to carry only one bag: a lovely dual-purpose bag that can hold your knitting safe and secure as well as the more mundane items like wallets and keys and lipstick and a snack. So, this will be the first in a series of posts to try to get a consensus about what you all see as the best way to handle such things in our perfect knitting bag.
Keys. We all have them. Some of us have more than others (still trying to get Husband to install the keyless entry on the front door), but they are almost always on big rings with cute chains and lots of "poke-ey" points. They're even worse for a knitting project than a loose pair of scissors sometimes!
So they can't go in with our knitting. Ok.
And, they have to be handy. For goodness' sakes, they have to be close and ready to grab. There is nothing worse than reaching for them and then going deeper and deeper into the depths of your bag only to have to start all over again because they slipped past you in one of the layers of purse sediment. So we have to attach them somewhere that they can be found easily, grabbed easily, and then replaced easily (if it's too difficult to put them back, we go back to dropping them into the bag, and then repeat the problem).
So we need a way to attach and detach them easily, away from our knitting. Ok.
So, I'm thinking of clips. And we live in an age where there are TONS of clips to be found. There are carabiner clips, the good old-fashioned thumb-snap clips, snaps, buttons, ribbons, elastic...
Have I missed any? Do you have ideas about the best way to attach our keys to the bag in an easily accessible and easily replaceable manner? Should they be able to hang to the inside or the outside of the bag- or just one or the other? Would it be nice to be able to leave them attached for those quick uses at the front door, but detach them for the car?
I'd love to hear what you think! This project will not be the same without all of your input!
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