Saturday, 18 October 2008

The root of all evil?

Normally I don't like giving people money as a gift; I enjoy buying presents too much. But when my friend asked for a monetary gift for her birthday to contribute to her foreign trip fund, I thought it would be a nice opportunity to get a little crafty and add a personal touch to my gift.

I haven't had the time to make anything recently but this morning I was happily free so I decided to use one of my favourite techniques; sewing on card. I am ridiculously unable to use a sewing machine; I seem to break mine every time I try to use it, so sewing on card is a lovely alternative and oddly therapeutic.

If we're going to have to let money continue to exist, we might as well wrap it up nicely.

4 comments:

  1. Really lovely. So nice that you put yourself into the gift and have your friend what she wanted. I am sure she will love it!! I know I would.:-)

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  2. That's a sweet method of gift-wrap.

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  3. Aw, I used to make things like that all the time when I was little. And I'm so with you re sewing machines, I can't even get my head around threading the bobbin. (Do they even have bobbins anymore?)

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  4. Thanks!

    Yes rollergirl, they have bobbins and I am very expert at threading the bobbins - but they always seem to get stuck and ruin the whole mechanism. Oh well!

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