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Buttercup Mending

6/27/2017

 
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Does anyone else have a thing about bags -- that deal where you can't imagine leaving home, much less making it through a trip, without having your elemental stuff in the perfect bag?
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Or maybe you think you're set with a  satchel that is comfortable to carry and has room for all the essentials (flashlight, mug,  pocket hang glider, ear plugs, spindle, pencils, dictionary, novel, etc),  but then you start a new project
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that generatesa bunch of material you absolutely MUST have with you at all times to survive whatever the future brings
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which means that the extra large custom spindle case must be called into action
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and the bag you were counting on is too small and the one that might work still needs mending 
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and is not, truth to tell  (thanks to previous scattershot approach to reinforcing disintegrating fabric),
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the most sophisticated thing you've ever made, much less mended?
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Well that never happens to me...
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Linda
6/27/2017 05:10:14 pm

I have so many bags that I had to have two coat racks put up to hold them. They are overflowing. When I go to clear it out, I still can't get rid of them. I love them all. I do use only a few though...

Nancy
6/28/2017 06:34:01 am

I LOVE BAGS. I'm a fickle knitter, so when I encounter a challenge, I start something new while I mull over a resolution. Of course, I need another bag to carry the new knitting. My LYS dispenses yarn in great drawstring plastic bags which I hang on door knobs---door knobs above the level to which my cat can jump because my he eats plastic! So fabric bags avoid the inevitable throw-up. When I run out of doorknobs and bags, I know it's time to work out the aforesaid challenge.


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