The lovely 5currantbuns made me a lovely bag the other day, you can see it here, as part of a crafty pass it on. I’ve had trouble finding people to pass on to, so I’ve, in the spirit of things, donated a large bag of new books to Boy Lacer’s playgroup, which are sort of ‘crafty’ as they’re all by Barefoot and their illustrations are beautiful (and I was ah hem reducing my stock), I will also (once I’ve sorted it out) donate my supply of fake craft fur to Girl Lacer’s school, so that all the junk sculptures will be furrified for at least a month (I really have no idea why I have so much of the stuff). So that left one more crafty thing to do, so to turn it into a circle of sorts I made 5currantbuns a bag in return, with some fabric very similar to my cushion fabric she had been admiring and more stripy fabric, because I still have so much of that stuff (incidentally with my stripy trousers, I was wearing them yesterday in John Lewis, where I had brought the fabric and the lady behind the till goes “Oh you made trousers, they’re . . . different” hmmmm). I sort of made the bag up as I went along, but it was inspired by a similar bag I saw in a patchwork book. It’s lined to, in pink fabric. Plus there’s an Aranzi Aranzo rabbit bag charm, as 5currantbuns likes Aranzi Aranzo to.
I made spinach soup for lunch (an Ainsley Harriott recipe from his pre-poncy days, spinach, mint and pancetta) and I was shocked about how making it decimated what I had thought was a fairly healthy crop of spinach, for just one portion of soup! I had two rows of spinach plants in my large fake bath tub and they were so well established they looked as if they were bordering on bolting. But you know how much spinach you have to put in things, as it wilts down so much.
