It was during my class three, i was inspired by a bag used by my class teacher. It was made of wool. Still then I have seen bags made of nylon threads by my mom. For the first time I had a spark, and tried with the left over yarn of my grandma who knits sweater for us. I did that.......and it came out well. And to find the stitch used in that bag I asked her to teach me and she did. Finally i tried that and the stitch was wow.... Here is one recent pic of a purse using that stitch.
It was during our wedding, my husband's friends came to India. And to give them a small memento we planned many things finally our(my sister and myself) idea was accepted by our parents. The idea is things made out of handwork, and yes we did them all. Here is a pic of our memento, with the above said stitch. The purse is known as potli.