The Bad Robot has been down and out with a flu the past few days. So I've taken the forced house-arrest as an opportunity to get some sewing done. An old yellow nail apron with big black print inspired me to turn out a couple of clutches. My mother found this fantastic comic book super hero bark cloth at the market last week and it made a fab lining for one of them.

I've been having one of those weeks... rough times, sick robot, and bad news. I'm trying to keep my chin up and occupy my time with hard work. It's a new week and it'll be great... (I think I can... I think I can...)

The Bad Robot and his Paternal unit have left the building. I'm going to take full advantage of the 2 silent moments that exit has given me, to BLOG.

I've been feeling a litte rough around the edges lately... not sure why. So until we figure it out I'm keeping myself busy sewing up a storm... in between building living room tents and watching endless episodes of "Toopy and Binoo". I found this fabulous old Australian mail bag and managed to get three bags out of it.



I absolutely love the color of the sack with it's gold print and black thread darns.

So it turns out that blogging is not what I thought it would be. When I started this whole thing I thought I would be FILLED with inspiration and have posting ideas coming out the... well you get the idea. On the contrary... every time I think of posting something I decide it's not worthy. Or, the bad robot in my life (a name he picked... not me) gets a fever and doesn't sleep for three days. Somehow he's still running around like a super hero and I'm like the living dead. I could barely motivate myself to sit down at the sewing machine let alone think of something profound to "blog" about. Once I did force myself to the machine I decided to tackle yet another zipper attempt. All of the things I have conquered in the world of sewing, fabric, and design... I still can't get a zipper right. Is there anyone out there that can give me a fool proof method? .... anyone?

I did manage to finish 2 more bags for the market tomorrow. One that was an old German feed bag with big print all over it. I have no idea what it says... hopefully nothing offensive. I lined it with ticking. It's so scrumptious I could eat it!

Well... I'm off to bed to dream of bark cloth... or maybe to nightmare of zippers. Either way, I hope to see sleep tonight.

P.S. I threw the zipper-foot into the living room today... I'm sure "bad robot" will find it tomorrow and think it's one of his missing pieces.