I fell completely and madly in love with Purl Soho’s mini herringbone scarf pattern, and thought it was the perfect “man gift” idea. I had this incredible yarn that I can’t for the life of me remember the name of nor can I find the tag (arg!), and it was knitting up beautifully. Alas, the colour palette wasn’t as masculine (aka the blue and grey palette my husband insists on) as I had anticipated, and my DH is just not a scarf wearing guy anyway. So what to do, what to do? Conveniently, Pinterest saved the day! Check out this pre-fab leather bag top and bottom from Knitter’s Pride. Looks…