bits & pieces

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Date: 27 June 2006 21:08:19

I have changed the colour of my wiblog to reflect my recent obsession with the colour green. Actually it's an 'acid green with very dark purple' combination which I am currently very taken with, but this is as near as I can get. (Think Queen of the Night tulip against new green leaves of a dogwood. MMmmmm).

Been meaning to mention for a while that I appear to have a regular reader from the Netherlands. Now, is this someone who regularly comments here who is actually from the Netherlands while I have been assuming they live somewhere familiar like Bristol. Or is it a regular but as yet non-commenting person? Or is it that lots of people from the Netherlands google 'Natasha Kaplinsky', and look at this site once before leaving in disgust on realising that she is only mentioned here because I don't like her.

If you're the non-commenting Netherlands reader: hello!

And on to nappy-bag related comments:
Auntie D: never fear, as I have been making things recently I have been saving all the bits of fabric which are not big enough for me to use, but too big to be just chucked as scraps. When I have a reasonable amount I will be sending them to you for card-making use!
TJ: if you want a new nappy bag I'm happy to make you one! But I'd recommend waiting until I've carted this one round for a month or so just to check it really is up to the job.

Whenever I make something like this, mr b gets all excited about money-making possibilities with my making things. The problem is that I have the attention span of a goldfish and having made something once, I want to make something different. (Unless there is a specific need to make more. I'm happy to make things for people if they ask for them but the thought of sitting down and making ten nappy bags in case people want to buy them fills me with gloom.)

This I suppose is the advantage of quilts. Basically the same thing, but always looking different. Next project: quilt for baby due in november.* Planning to do it on the machine so we shouldn't have a repeat of the QoG episode. Also I must get a decent rotary cutter to help with my hatred of the cutting out stage.

*Not mine. You haven't missed an announcement or anything.