Another spoon

I love spoons!

My friend bought me this spoon after a visit to a Silver exhibition in Limerick's Hunt Museum.

I'm not really sure what it's for. It's the size of a teaspoon but the head is very flat so I think perhaps it's useful for serving marmalade from a little dish onto your plate or morning toast.

At the moment I'm using it for my loose teas to measure and place them into the teapot.

Honey or Jam Spoon

This spoon is like a teaspoon but with a kink in the arm.

The kink enables the spoon to sit on the edge of a jar. So for serving honey or jam, the contents can drip back into the jar after being used.

It doesn't work so well though when the jar is full!

Spoons - Olive spoon

This spoon is the length of an ice-cream or dessert spoon with the head of a teaspoon and a hole through it! The hole lets the brine drip through when removing olives from a jar.

Spoons - Sugar Sifter

In Cardiff at the weekend, we followed signs for a "Vintage Fair" and found ourselves in a church hall with tables set up in typical fashion.

One sweet little stall sold silverware and cutlery. And I found it hard to choose between two beautiful silver-plated "sugar sifters"

I chose this one because of the dainty edging:
Haven't used it yet!

And isn't the label beautiful?! Every item on the stall had a similar label, tied to the item by its little ribbon.

Sewing a purse

My flatmate wanted a purse that was slim enough to fit in her back pocket. But also had dividers for coins / notes / cards.

It was her birthday. I headed into town.

There are so many basic purses in the shops. €4, €5, €7, €8 and onwards and upwards for a zip attached to a pretty-patterned fabric; no dividers!

I popped in to the trimmings shop and bought a 4" zip for €1.50 and with some black satin fabric I had at home, proceeded to piece together the purse.

Here's the design:

• 4x rectangles of fabric, same size + zip
  
• turn down the long edge one of the rectangles and sew an edge - do this with two of the rectangles
• sew the zip onto a long edge of the other two rectangles
• place all four pieces of fabric on top of each other (placing the edged pieces and the zip on the same side) and sew the three edges
• voilá