Dress Of The Day with Angela

 I admired this tote bag carried by my good friend, who goes my the name of Dearmcatcher. Her bag is the brand Kate Spade, New York. the bag is a clean cream colour, with a pattern of red and orange charries, so it can go with many colours. She said it was a very reasonable price. Strange. When I went online all the bags of this brand were around 100 sing dollars. One  see something you like at a reasonable price, buy it.

I must confess this project did not go as well as I had hoped. First the good news. The project started well. Slitting the seams was straight forward. Some ends of the stitching were tough, well sewn. I had to admire the manufacturer for sewing down such thick fabric.  What size of sewing needle were they using! An industrial machine, no doubt. The thread and seams were very secure at the knee and crotch. No fear of your shorts pulling apart and sliding down.  Waist Size More good news. Despite the shorts being too tight for my husband, the waist fitted me perfectly, no need to tighten nor loosen it, nor move the pretty button.  Horizontal Patterns I rotated the resulting skirt, as you can see in this picture, to get the gaps at the sides instead of the back and the front. However, the result is that the pattern is slightly slanted.  I asked my husband what he thought. To my surprise he shrugged and said, "Nobody but you would notice (that the pattern wasn't matching...

  I ordered this bag from Vistaprint. You can see my book and the bag advertising my book. If you are a member of a book club, you can add a picture of your favourite classic book to carry your books. Add A Zip The bag doesn't have a zip but I can add one. I have several spare zips left over from garments. All long zips. I keep zips in a glass jar labelled zips. Useful Websites Your Book or Logo Featured on a bag https://www.vistaprint.co.uk/clothing-bags/bags/totes Gifts for readers Humorous Bee Title bag https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/735254501/cute-bee-literature-book-bag About the Author I have other blogs on travel. Meet me at Toastmasters International meetings. Link up to me on Facebook. Please share links to your favourite posts.

  Tote bag handles. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Enable Ginger Cannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connection or reload the browser Disable in this text field Rephrase Rephrase current sentence Edit in Ginger × Enable Ginger Cannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connection or reload the browser Disable in this text field Rephrase Rephrase current sentence Edit in Ginger × Tote Bag Tapes Or Ribbons I often save the ribbon handles or rope handles from paper or synthetic tote bags. These green ribbons are synthetic fabric with a corrugated look and feel. The Green Ribbons I have several green rescued ribbons, from brown paper tote bags which somebody else threw away? My husband or a neighbour? My first thought was to save the ties for use on tote bags which had no proper flat handles, just the string ones which bite into your wrists or arms or rub your sleeves. I put the green ribbons into the drawer of my sewing desk. I opened the drawer and found an odd single green...