{"id":15844,"date":"2025-07-01T09:03:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T08:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=15844"},"modified":"2025-06-09T17:55:52","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T16:55:52","slug":"un-idling-my-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2025\/07\/01\/un-idling-my-hands\/","title":{"rendered":"Un-idling My Hands"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I would like to have a small pencil bag to take sketching, and I’ve been finding myself in the evening, fidgeting because I can’t concentrate on the complicated stuff and my crochet has fallen so far out of my head that I am contemplating pulling the whole lot out (most of one sock, from rib to the beginning of the toe) and starting again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And yet I would like my hands not to be idle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve just taken a pair of side panels out of a skirt, so I’ve pressed one of those panels and drawn some rough fernlike curlicue things on the fabric in chalk – just freehand, nothing complex, no attempt at evenness, just a sense of balance and an all over pattern.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Then I went rummaging for a thread that would live happily on the fabric. This is quite a heavy thread on a cardboard spool, and I’ve not the vaguest idea where it came from. It varies from a very dark teal to a lighter version of the purple of the fabric, and it’s going well so far. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Strictly speaking that thread is on the heavy side for the fabric, and I may find that coming back to bite me, but for now, my little homage to the “Fernmania” that brought you the scrolls on custard creams is going well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I’ve done the whole length I will need to decide, do I line it with the other side panel or save that to make another bag with? Little drawstring bags are always useful, after all….<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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