It's Raining. Still…….

We've has a brilliant winter up the hill this year. All the people down below Cortona have been covered in damp fog and were miserable for weeks on end, while up the hill we've had bright sunny days. 
But now it's raining and raining and raining! All outside activities have ground to a halt and we're holed up in the house next to the fire.
It's perfect sewing weather! After dusting off my sewing machine I set to work producing primitive style teddy bears. 
I sell these little creations to friends and guests who come for the summer. 
They certainly wouldn't make me rich but I like the idea of knowing there's a little boy in Paris with one of my foxes, a girl in the States with a teddy and twins with matching teddies in Australia!
I regulary scout the second hand store here in Cortona for little old ladies winter coats which I then cut up, wash and use to make the teddy-bears. 
The equally old ladies who work in the store always comment on the quality of the coats that I'm buying. I know they're wondering why I need so many coats but I have a feeling that if I tell them I'm cutting them up, they wouldn't give them to me!