Recently, I heard it said "you have to do something ALOT to get good at it". That's true about many things in life. Why is it that we think we will achieve perfection without the work of repetition? Luckily I am having an amazingly good time continuing to try my hand at improving this little pouch thingy. Turning it into the best little squeeze pouch I am capable of.
What I have figured out, is my favorite part may be sewing together teeny bits of fabric to decorate the bag. I have NOT hit my stride yet, but the practice will continue. What else am I to do with all these scraps?
The logical side of my brain also continues to contemplate ways to make the construction better.
At this exact moment I have a pair of old, very thin, jeans, waiting to be cut up for use with my leftover spots and stripes quilt material. They are going to turn into a pillow sham. I think. A good "medium sized project" to go along with this small scale bag.
On the literary front, I just finished The Shadow Girls by Henning Mankell. It has had me on a pendulum swing between total irritation with the main character, and can't stop listening because the story line is so good. I got this at the library because it was available on CD and I have had "Faceless Killers", the author's first in the Wallender series, on my "to read" list for years. It was not available on CD, but this was. As good a reason as any to pick a book. This is NO crime novel. Which is amusing because the main character, Jesper Humlin, is a poet whose last book didn't do so well and his publisher wants him to write a crime novel.
What made this book very worth a listen, are the stories of the three refugee girls (Tea-Bag, Leyla, and Tanya) and their individual journeys from Nigeria, Iran, and Russia. Their struggles to be seen and survive are real and their narratives difficult to hear at times. There are so many things we don't know about what people are going through, have been through, etc. I want to read more by this author.
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