The dragon flower bag

I made another bag as a gift this year, this time for my mother-in-law. She was with me when I bought the pattern and seemed to really like it, so I sewed it up for her.

I put my hand in this picture so you could get a sense of the size of the bag. The clasp is actually on the back side, not on the dragon flower side. The exterior is made from an ultrasuade material, the dragon flower is a really interesting cotton and the interior is also a cotton that in a happy stroke of luck pretty much exactly matched the exterior.

My cat's Christmas

My mother-in-law is a confirmed dog person but still manages to get the best cat toys for our kitties at Christmas (which I know I've written about before). This year was no exception and Eddie in particular is having a ball with this present.





He's managed to get the toy out of the sucker gripper that kept it on the glass door, and has been carrying it around the house for the last 30 minutes. We'll need to make sure we put it away tonight or we'll never get any sleep.

Family visit

I don't have much time to write a post today but did want to mention that my mother-in-law came to visit this weekend. She's a fantastic lady, I count myself very fortunate to have her as a mother-in-law. She got here Friday and left on Sunday. We didn't do much except we did drag her around to a fabric store and Costco on Saturday in some melt-your-eyebrows heat. Wore us all out!

Kent got this picture of her with me on Saturday.