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Anna and I decided to do a little candy and fabric swap. Anna, a Londoner, was itching for some number fabric and some Butterfingers, and I have always pined for some Liberty fabric, and, well, you know me and candy from other places. I received the beautifully wrapped package today. Here’s the candy!

I’ve already sampled one of the milk chocolate caramel biscuit bars and one of the round red foil things (it’s a chocolate-covered marshmallow with biscuit!). YUM.
And the gorgeous Liberty fabric:
The piece in the upper left-hand corner is corduroy! Peter thinks I should make the upper right-hand piece into a kerchief. The cotton is so buttery soft that you’d think it was silk.
And the icing on the cake? These two handcrafted pieces from Anna:
On the left is a little felted lamb. It has a brilliant little beaded chain attached to it, so I can carry it with me all over Portland. On the right is a delicate pin cushion made with various pieces of Liberty fabrics! I guess I should have removed the ribbon so you could see the pieces more clearly. On the bottom of the photo you can barely see a piece of double-sided felt rick rack. Genius!

I don’t know what it is, but lately I have been drawn to numbers. I have the number fabric that I used for my lumbar pillow, and now I have some number fabric that my mother brought back from her recent trip to Japan. How I love this fabric!

I wanted three meters to make a car/trench coat, but they only had two 1-meter pieces left, so that’s what I got. Now I just have to decide what to make. I am thinking about a jean jacket sort of thing if there is enough fabric …

I braved the sub-freezing temperature in my sewing room and did a little stitching the other day. I had purchased a desk chair at IKEA, but it’s not a cushy chair, and there was nowhere to attach my lumbar cushion. I decided to make a little cover for the cushion:

I attached the cushion with some webbing:
Now I just have to make another cover for the seat cushion. I think I need to add an extra layer of foam to it, cuz this seat is pretty hard!
I also made yet another little pouch. I used some of the Hasi Hester vintage fabric I got at a yard sale last spring.