Make do and mend

From BBC Radio 4 to the Sunday Observer Magazine, articles 

are appearing on ways to save money and save the planet etc.   

How to hem, darn, sew ona button.  Knit, crochet, patchwork.   

I think I have heard this all before.

But, hey, it's good.  Now we can all feel justified with the little 

hordes of saved string, brown paper and 'things' that might 

come in useful.   

Mending - I have a small Pfaff sewing machine, basic but 

light enough to take to workshops.  I left it at The Mill in a 

cupboard for several weeks, only to find when next required 

the bobbin race had rusted.   Enter John the Sewing Machine 

man.  Brilliant, got the wire brush out, reburnished the casing 

and it is as good a new.

Making do - instructions to use the machine to get it really 

going again. Just the thing, one of the Journal Quilts on my list.   

This one is for the group Infinity.   Subject - Glass.

Raided my inherited button boxes for glass buttons, the scrap 

bag for fabric.   Glass beads and shisha.   Tick.