But I'm Just Going To Show You A Bit At A Time

Otherwise there'll be too much to tell.

This is (obviously) the front, or back of the bag. Once again, I had no intention of working any PICTURES! For goodness sake! I just can't stick to that SIMPLE plan! I made it to help sell some hand made wooden handles Bustle & Bow's had got in, but in the end the handles didn't suit the bag, so I took these off an old tapestry bag I'd been given (which was useless because the side gusset was so narrow you couldn't get your hands into the bag).

I began to make a 'Carpet' bag in all brown velvets, with green and gold threads only... which got boring pretty quickly. Very quickly. Again, as with the big quilt, the idea was to showcase the incredible borders from (particularly) Sarah Bonds little brown book. The butterfly-looking border below the 60's trippy butterfly is an adaptation from Carole Samples book on Crazy Quilt Stitches.

I liked the old, old friendship quilts where the women wrote their names in ink... and in keeping with that I wrote the poem in indelible ink:

'A fair little girl sat under a tree

Sewing as long as her eyes could see

Then smoothed her work and folded it right

And said "Dear work, Goodnight, Goodnight!"

When and if I get to writing a book of my designs and methods, I have always set this poem aside for the last page. It's by Baron Houghton.