Fabric bowls & electrical cables ...

To add to my seemingly never ending list of works-in-progress, I've started making a fabric bowl. Or should I call it a fabric basket? I'm not sure. Anyway, I've made the odd bowl or two before, like this blue & white one that I keep cotton perle in.

I decided to use upholstery material, which has both advantages & disadvantages. On the good side, it has a certain stiffness, which helps the bowl stay in shape. On the irritating side, the kind of material I'm using frays like mad, and I'm forever picking up threads off the carpet. The bowl's a simple construction, and I've used a circle of cardboard covered with brown felt for the base.

It'll look much better when I've embroidered and stitched into it. I've made a start on that, and appliqued on a rectangle of plum coloured velvet for extra interest.

When not stitching, I've been catching up on my reading. I finished C J Sansom's 'Dark Fire'.

Really enjoyed it, despite some grisly details. I'm now reading Robert Galbraith's 'Career of Evil' after finding a copy of that in a charity shop. I think I've read the other Strike novels, but somehow missed this one.

I picked up a few other things while rummaging in charity shops. This lovely book on Klimt, a pack of Paperchase notecards, and this intriguing book by Liz Hyder, 'The Gifts'.

That's about all for now, unless you want to listen to me ranting about electrical cables .... okay, well, if you insist ... The cable for my laptop broke today. I think there was a loose wire and it's stopped working, so I need a replacement if I'm to recharge my laptop. Of course, it might be hoped I'd find a replacement cable in the large box of cables I've got stuck in a cupboard upstairs. But no ... I've every type of cable for laptops & tablets & mobile phones that've long since gone to the great electrical graveyard in the sky. But do any of them fit my Chromebook? No. No, of course they don't. That'd be too much to expect. So it's an online order from Amazon for a new cable. In the meantime, I dare not throw any cables away from the box in the upstairs cupboard because if I do, I'll miraculously find a need for one of them, won't I? Arghhhh!!!!!!

Rant over. Hope you've had a good weekend, and farewell from rainy Yorkshire. x

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