There is enough in the world for everyone's need ...

... but not enough for everyone's greed.

Frank Buchman
Because I'm not particularly tecnhical I have to search for my blog in order to get into it.  It's probably just me but at the same time as typing in the word greedy 'puter did that predictive thing and flashed up 'greedy old men'.  It did make me laugh - just my sense of humour [of lack of] I suppose.

I was quite interested to see where the search would take me but didn't actually find it that.  It was mostly about, as you might imagine, greedy old men.  In fact, not even old in my estimation.  Just greedy.  I wonder how many people actually look up that subject?  I wonder how many people actually look up my blog?  Theirs might be a darn sight more interesting than this...

Any way, as usual, I am prevaricating, because greedy old men, women or children were not want what I was going to post on.

I recently borrowed from the library a patch working book by Nicki Trench called a 'Passion for Quilting'.  I did think about buying it but they had it my my local library and so I used that facility instead.

 

 

It's a book aimed I think at beginners as most of the projects are relatively simple but that's no bad thing because often less is more.  I loved the colours and fabrics used in the projects too.  There were quite a few things I wanted to do but what I ended up making was a little zipped purse/bag.You can see the one I attempted in this picture - it's the one with the rickrack on it..

I can't show you the 'actual' one I made because I still have camera problems. Perhaps I should consider buying a new one but I'll possibly break that one too given a chance.  And of course, my little bag looks nothing like this - it has features...

 

What I also liked about the book were the little 'how to' sections; for instance inserting a zip.  I remember the HUGE problems I had when we had to make a skirt in the sewing classes at school and have sidetracked anything that involved zips or buttons for that matter ever since.  I would never have thought of doing it the way it described so think it's worth the price for that alone.

 

The book has now been returned to the library so it's available again or you could always order it for the price of a chocolate bar - a very reasonable cost for a month of part-ownership of a book to see if you want to get one of your own.

 

Now the book has gone I'll have to think of another little project to keep me out of mischief.  I'm not sure what to do as there are so many ideas on everyone else's blogs at the moment.  My particular favourite may possibly be Planet Penny.  Not only lots of crafty stuff but the latest post is for spice biscuits which fulfils all my waking thoughts.

 

 

I'd better get on; lots to do - making spice biscuits being one of them.

 

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