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Us Brits are never happier than when we're either drinking tea or discussing the weather.  Preferably both.  Today has been unseasonably warm.  I mean, it's April.  It shouldn't be so mild you don't even need a coat or a jumper on.  I can't decide if it's just a routine weather event or yet another scary sign of global warming.  Anyway, on to craftier matters.  The day began with me unearthing this buckle while I was rummaging in a button tin.   I realised the colour meant it would look good as part of a fastening for this fabric wrap that I'd almost-but-not-quite completed.  I sewed the buckle on, and paired it with this dotty black ribbon.   The ribbon's not totally perfect, but I need to remember the ' better done than perfect ' saying, don't I?  Right, that fabric wrap's finished and I can tick it off my work-in-progress list.  The other thing I finished is this circle bag.  It didn't really turn out how I en...

  On impulse, I decided to take a break from making embroidered felt birds - and stuffing myself with Easter chocolate - to start this bit of slow stitching.  I've got the urge to make a circle bag.  I've seen this kind of thing on YouTube, where a drawstring bag's made of a circle of material, and when the drawstring's loosened it opens out completely.  So the fabric lays flat, meaning you can see exactly what the contents of your bag are and don't have to rummage around inside to pull out whatever you're wanting.  Or, you can use the bag as a lunch bag, and when it's opened out that becomes a mini picnic blanket or place mat.   I also liked idea of using even the tiniest scraps of material, including delicate pieces of silk almost too fragile to use.   As well as little scraps that wanted using up, I also wanted to use lengths of embroidery thread that weren't wound around spools.   These are the leftovers from when I've divided u...