Colourful beach bag

Summertime, and the living is easy! Well, if it's 40 degrees is not so easy, even on the beach it's kind of hot! That's why most Greeks go to the beach at 7 or 8 o'clock in the morning and leave at 10. They go back to their apartment or hotel, have some coffee, an early lunch and have their siesta. When you wake up you need some coffee again, and at 7 it's back to the beach.  At that time you can swim, play, and watch the sun set. At 10 or later, you have dinner, at home or in a lovely taverna. The best way to spend your holidays when it's hot! If you want to do things, like a lot of foreign tourists who come in the summer, you should come in spring or autumn. Then the weather is beautiful for excursions.

Now it's beach time!

Yesterday one of my friends went to Gytheion with her family. They go with the caravan. That's great when you have children. I used to do that and I loved it.
She took the bag I made for her with her. She was very pleased with it, also because I used a piece of material she had given me, that had emotional value for her.





I love to search for materials in old shops and I also use recycled fabrics. If I like the design, I cut up cotton shirts, skirts, tablecloths, sheets and whatever else I can find in cotton or linen. For the quilt I am making at the moment I cut up a brand new tablecloth. A friend who saw that couldn't believe it. She would have loved to have the tablecloth. I got it in the old shop in Kalamata. It is made by Πειραϊκη Πατραϊκη. This factory closed years ago, which is a pity, because they made beautiful stuff, in a very good quality.

                                           This bag I made for a friends birthday