I started this bag one Bastille day with high hopes, a 3.5 mm hook, and a vast array of brightly colored yarns from my yarn stash:

While not technically challenging, this project resisted my efforts to finish it, but I persisted, and finish it I did.
The following thirteen blog posts explore how this project got made.
Episode 1: Celebrating Bastille Day with crochet
Episode 2: The Mamy/Mary Poppins Bag
Episode 3: When projects won’t complete themselves as quickly as one would like
Episode 4: The continuing saga of the bag that refuses to be completed
Episode 5: The fabric of our lives
Episode 6: What comes next
Episode 7: I make progress on the bag that refuses to be finished
Episode 8: I close in on finishing my Mamy bag
Episode 9: A little thinking can be a dangerous thing
Episode 10: Harnessing yesterday’s mojo
Episode 11: The return of the Mamy bag
Episode 12: Unfinished business
Episode 13: Strike me pink!