I've been busy stitching yellow. These little drawstring bags for foster kids were completed last week, but then I had to go and purchase some suitable coloured cords. All done now. The top two have motifs declaring "winner", with a gold cup and laurel wreath, that's certainly different, and I received this fabric together with a whole heap more from my former neighbour Dorothy. Then I stitched two bags for boys featuring trucks, tractors and diggers, and the last one with cute farm animals - these fabrics were donated to me recently.
Five yellow draw string bags
String blocks were also stitched, using a handful of assorted yellow strings. Not quite enough, so I had to go hunting and cut a few more to give me the number I wanted. I had decided on 20 blocks, to make a small cot quilt. These were stitched on left-over tracing vinyl, so I was pleased to use some more of that up too.
20 blocks stitched
Once the blocks are trimmed they look so much better, don't they.
I've just finished reading a book which I rediscovered tucked away in the book case, "There and Back" by Barry Crump, which tells about Sam Cash. Sam is a teller of great yarns and tall stories, as he travels around the country finding a little work here and there to keep him in beer and before moving on to more adventures. Barry Crump was a well known and much loved Kiwi icon, a hunting, fishing, shooting type of bloke, and his writing career started in 1960 with his semi-autobiographical book "A Good Keen Man". He continued to write 24 novels about the rugged New Zealand outdoors.
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