three books and a bag

I'm joining Ginny's yarnalong today, with my (finally) completed Attic24 crochet bag.

It was done a month ago, but I've been hung up with the flowers. First, figuring out how to make crocheted flowers, then making a few, then looking at other crocheted flower designs. Not to mention trying to decide if I even wanted flowers on it, and then determining how to place the handles. 

I just began reading Therese: Saint of a Little Way, by Frances Parkinson Keyes. I've seen her books on the library shelf, but never tried one. It's very good so far - at least, the preface was; this is a post-war edition to the original, where she's gone back to France where she wrote the book in the beautiful atmosphere of a Benedictine Abbey in Lisieux years before, to see a bombed-out ruin of a town. 

Here are the flowers I made for the bag, but when it came down to it, I thought I'd prefer it without. This time. Because I like the pattern, and will probably make it again. 

It's quite a large bag, the diameter at the top being twenty six inches!  The size of it is an invitation to load it up with things, but I doubt the handles could take the stress.  I'll try a smaller version next time, and maybe find a way to reinforce the handles. 

I am actually reading three books - Let God's Light Shine Forth: the Spiritual Vision of Pope Benedict XVI, and I'm still also with Columbus' log. All three enjoyable in their own ways.

Thank you, Ginny!