Cambags

Having accidentaly left my small camera bag at son-who-lives-a-long-way-away's house, there were times when I didn't want to carry my big (heavy) bag around. A quick look at commercially made handbag-type bags revealed that they cost about £100+, so I decided to make my own using a bought bag and fitting the 'innards'. The first bag cost about £10 -


- and the second (smaller) one was one I already had in the house. I used about a metre of fabric for each bag, one inch foam (bought at an upholsterers), plus sew-in velcro. The dividers can be repositoned to suit the size of lenses, filters and other bits and pieces. I love using them as they don't look like camera bags and they have room for purses, mobile phones and so on. I can also remove the whole unit and put it into another bag - and you can't have too many bags!

Fabric fling

In between playing with psp designs I've been returning to some of my favourite things, one being making a bag, this time for one of our small granddaughters.


Then with some of my Christmas money I bought some fabric (plain red and green) from Ikea, and a couple of remnants at John Lewis. The dotty red is PVC coated cotton which will give me chance to try out the walking foot on the sewing machine.


Next to reading (and smelling!) new books, having new fabrics to use is one of the small pleasures of life ....

First time jitters

For the first time I have been tagged! Help! Here goes! Jackie has tagged me to mention 5 current obsessions (re textile-y things). Now I have to confess that I don't think the word obsession is right, for me at least; it's rather things that I am interested in, drawn to and take pleasure in. So the first thing that I'm going to mention is the colour purple, which I mentioned in a previous post. I love this colour, but don't wear a lot of it. Here are few photos. The first four are brooches, two with old (aka vintage!) buttons, then a wallhanging and finally a fishing net at the harbour and a book cover.