The mystery bag!

Here's how I got the idea for this bag. I wanted to knit something for a friend in the US, and asked what her favourite colours are. Blues and greens was her answer. Then she qualified the blue with a very particular descripton! My original idea was to make a scarf (Branching Out was the result), but once given the germ of an idea, I thought, why not make a themed bag ... the result was the TARDIS bag :-) My friend is a big fan of Doctor Who, going back many years, so when she said "TARDIS blue", this was the result:

Pattern: my own, basically a knitted section of stockinette folded and seamed up the sides. Knitted squares added separately (and kudos to DH for doing the blue on the grey pieces). Bag is lined with a sewn-in felt pocket.
Yarn: Stylecraft DK 100% wool shade Ocean

I was never quite sure how I was going to execute the panels and windows effect, technically there should be eight but that would have looked odd here, I think!

Hopefully this will make my friend laugh, she has had a tough year or so and fingers crossed, this will cheer her up a bit :-)