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An oldie but a goodie.

I bought Monique a new book called "I love my baby sister" and wanted a bag to put it in.  So, I went back to an old tutorial I have in my bookmarks from p.s. I quilt.  It has been there so long it is top of the list!!  It's a great little bag although I am always changing the dimensions to fit what I want to put in it.  Like the bag I made for these Xmas presents for my sisters grandchildren back in 2009.

This time I needed it to fit the book and I decided to only quilt the bottom becuase it had to be made in less than 40 minutes.

I used the basic design and added a border on the top to match the base.  Of course I did this after I had cut the lining so here was a bit of adjustment to get the handles right.

Monique loves it, her own bag to carry around and put things in.

I dropped into Ikea today and bought some little softies.  I think they will need their own bag as well.

 

From the edge

There are people in this world who walk so close to the edge of things, Lucy McRae is one them.  She straddles the world of fashion, technology and the body. The visual appeal of some of the music videos she has made is truely great.

 

Her recent appearence at TED demonstrates how she stretches the possible.  I love the idea of taking a pill that reacts with you body chemistry to produce a perfume that your own body realeases in your perspiration.

 

TAST 2012 May 22nd

Week 21   Butterfly Chain Stitch

 What a dastardly act? 

Who can be responsible for this terrible outrage?

Has the world gone mad?

Who in this world would chain a butterfly?

Look how they flutter to escape their bonds.  Those beautiful creatures that are the metamorphosis of the humble caterpillar.  But look, the pink butterfly is free.

 

Link to crocheted butterfly tutorial

Link to Pintangle   Link to Flikr

Religion and babies

Now that we have 2 grand daughters I am more interested in the world they will inherit.  That's not completely true.  I've always been interested in what kind of world our children will inherit it is just a bit more personal now.

One thing that concerns me is population growth.  This talk by Hans Rosling put things into perspective.  He has a great way with cutting through the crap.

 

All the schedules have to be re written!

A new baby throws everything out of time.  I was going to have to have so many things done and you know what, I haven't done one of them.  So I need to rewrite my schedules.  I did get some of my last minute things done for the baby, like sewing on buttons.  Not knowing the gender I left that till the last minute.

Not good photos I'm afraid, due to poor light.

A couple of hats that will be too big for the first few weeks.

 

And I found a couple of things I had forgotten I had made.  This bib that I embroidered with frogs done in bullion stitch, I got carried away with working in 1 thickness of thread.

And I found that I had crocheted around a whole heap of washers.

All told I had two bags of goodies to take to the hospital.  One bag was the shawl but still I hadn't realised that I had made so much.