Gift From the North

 This very thoughtful gift arrived in the mail last week,

from my dear blogging friend, Sonja, in Norway,

 Sonja sent this beautiful hand-made bag and a sweet card.

She is an excellent seamstress and

she loves blue.

I love blue, too.

And I love this bag!

Look how perfectly sewn it is.

Oh, how I admire the sewing ones!

And the inside is polka-dots, 

and I love polka-dots, too.

I don't think it is meant to be reversible,

but I think it works.

 It came just in time for a college trip we are taking with Little Bug next week.

You see, I needed a bag to carry a crochet project.

I have placed an unfinished project from last year in it,

(which happens to coordinate with the bag)

to work on during travel time.

Thank you so much Sonja!!!

Last July I started this rose project:

I still don't know what I am going to make from all the mohair roses from this post,

 but I will continue to:

Knit Crochet, Relax, Smile.

Repeat!

And make more roses until something comes to me.

or until y'all tell me what I should make with these.

(There were some great suggestions from that post last July, as well.)