The camera has batteries!
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Date: 14 June 2007 20:05:02
So here are some pictures.
A bag, made while Auntie Doris was here, partly to show her how, but mainly as a present for a little girl who will be five at the end of the month. A bag with a colouring book in it has become my default present for 4/5/6 year old girls. It's so easy, and always seems to go down well. Isn't the giant yellow rick-rack on this marvellous? I also have some in green and orange. It's from the wonderful fabric shop in Monmouth, where AD and I spent £mumble-cough when she was here.
I love this sort of thing. Although I like planning projects and thinking things through, I also love being able to think 'I am sick of having my pegs in two plastic bags which blow around the garden and are generally annoying', and then within 20 minutes have a new peg bag, thanks to a small coathanger, the fabric stash and the sewing machine.
And here, in all its glory, is the wedding quilt. I handed it over a week ago, and they are pleased with it. I am pleased with it too, although there are a couple of niggles. I hadn't realised till it started to come together that one of the greens looked much more brown when all the colours are together. It's not a disaster, but it is related to the second niggle, which is that I'd hoped that maybe the greens would look a little flatter, so that the pattern* of the purples would be more obvious. In fairness I think that is actually less of an issue in real life than it is in these pictures.
I also discovered that it is difficult to take photos of a king-sized quilt in a badly lit room in the evening. These were taken while standing precariously on the coffee table, leaning out over the quilt, in the dark so that all the light came from the flash. Still, I didn't break anything. (Limbs or furniture.)
And the green and purple thing is out of my system now. I think...
*Not a pattern in the sense of a predictable layout, but it's not random either!