So here’s what I’ve been working on this week – cute bibs! My friend (and her mum) loved the one I made for her son and encouraged me to make some more. I drew a different shaped pattern that I like much more and set to with some of the fabric from my stash.

Since I have no little ones of my own, I’ve decided to have a go at an etsy shop. It will have other things in it as well as bibs, because I’ve got bag ideas floating around in my head that have been there a while. It’s exciting but a bit scary: will people other than my friends will like what I make? But I suppose my friends wouldn’t be encouraging me to do it if they honestly thought my work was terrible.

I’ll stop worrying about that now. The sun is out, and it’s hot for an October afternoon. Charlie has fashioned herself a sunshade from some tissue paper lying on the floor. I’m lying lazily on the bed, enjoying the sounds of the street drifting in through the open window.

Life is good.