I started this bag a few weeks ago, it's nearing completion. The pattern is from Noni Bags, it's the medium carpet bag, and I used Cascade 220 yarn. The bag is felted, it was MUCH larger before felting--no, I didn't take a photo. The felted bag is 15" wide x 10" tall by 5" deep. It's a few inches wider/deeper than the pattern calls for it to be, so I may felt it a little more. 
The flower is another pattern from Noni Bags, the Camellia Flowers pattern. I really like the way that it looks after felting, it's a very bright red although it looks orange-y in the colors on my monitor. The flower is about 7" across.
Here's the flower and the bag together. Now it just needs handles and lining, and maybe some reinforcement so that it doesn't get too saggy. I'm having trouble finding handles that are black and large enough so that they aren't dwarfed by the bag.
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Hey, Neeter,
That’s so funny that we’re knitting the same bag! Seeing your knitting in Portland got me back into knitting (or should I say finishing some knitting) again. I wanted to do the Noni in black and charcoal, but I went to three yarn stores and couldn’t find two skeins of black with the same dye lot. I should have looked for handles at the same time, but I wasn’t thinking that far ahead—I didn’t think it would be so hard to find them online. I did end up refelting the bag to make it smaller, it is now closer to the pattern dimensions. I’ll post directions for lining once I figure out what I’m going to do—I want to add interior pockets, but I’m not sure exactly how many or how I’m going to do it.
-Carrie
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