Books, bags, and movies

[yati]

ff_exchange is back! I will sign up once I find the courage to do so!

I was also planning to post an entry about books but I haven't managed to get to it! Last month was a great month for books -- I read two books I absolutely loved: The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness, which is the type of book that leaves your heart thumping and makes you feel dazed the next morning because you couldn't put the book down and sleep, and To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis, which was a lot of things but mostly hilarious.


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So. What I did over the weekend.

I finished this bag! Took me two weekends, actually, since I wasn't really concentrating on it -- it has been a mixture of reading and wrangling some stupid cross-browser CSS issues and watching TV and avoiding parties.



It's machine-sewn, and is about 10'' by 8'' by 3'', made of cotton fabrics and, um, some spongy sort of batting. (I don't know what these things are called, I just know how to use them.) It's also completely reversible (ie you can turn it inside out and have no side effects except an out-of-place looking pocket):



I didn't plan it to be reversible, but in hindsight, I should have realised it would be, considering how I did the lining.

It was originally meant to be a birthday present but I took too long to finish it, XD. A book fits nicely in it, and it has a few pockets both inside and outside. It's not as neat as I wanted it to be, but I'm quite pleased with it.

There are additional things I wanted to sew to go along with it, but they'll have to wait for the next weekend. Also I need a rotary cutter. How could a self-respecting patchworker not have a rotary cutter is beyond me.


Also ended up watching bits and pieces of Infernal Affairs I to III this weekend! Siblings were marathoning through them; I just popped by now and then to admire Tony Leung. I knew that The Departed followed the film closely (and I had watched Infernal Affairs before watching The Departed though it had been years earlier) but I was kinda marvelling at how even the dialogue was almost exact at times.

I still like Infernal Affairs better than the Hollywood remake, XD.