tea towel of the week

it was a very nice weekend - one that felt very long, which is always nice because it was just a regular old 2 day-er. i feel like i did get quite a few things done, including the partial completion of a few things from my recent things to do list.

the above lunchbag was made from one of the faulty tea towels i've inherited. it turned out as a rather large and slouchy lunch tote with snap closure. it was a quick sew as it only has 2 side seams. it is similar to one found at purl bee but the triangular corners and edges of the bag are stitched on the outside to emphasize the likeness to a brown paper bag.

i also made yogurt, which turned out ok, but still a little too thin for my liking (we've grown very accustomed to such lovely thick greek-style yogurts haven't we!). i had big aspirations of taking a lovely shot of a spoon upside down with the yogurt stuck on it, looking creamy and lovely and gravity defying. but alas, i suppose if you don't use cream and gelatin or some other thickening agent home-made yogurt is always going to turn out a little less thick and creamy. and it is a little lumpy. but it tastes like yogurt! and i think i have an idea for the next batch including using a little agar agar in the boiling milk as we don't much like gelatin around our place.

in a kind of a frenzy saturday, i sewed the applique letters onto the bunting for BB's happy birthday banner. i think i don't like applique, although it looks nice. all that is left to do is sew the bunting into the binding it will hang from. i think BB will be suitably impressed to see it blowing in the sea breeze at currumbin where we will have a Morning Tea 3rd Birthday party next month. . .

i hope you too had a lovely and productive/unproductive but still lovely weekend!