Saturday, August 29, 2009

Bag Ladies Strike Again...

A group of friends got together at Sarah's (my sil) house last night and we sewed up a storm. Cindy and Rhonda worked on making a bag from the latest Quilts and More magazine. Alexa made a messenger bag, Sarah made 3 music bags, two were reversible and one was a reversible bag with 4 patches on each side to make up the outside of the bag. I used the same pattern that Sarah used for the reversible bag. You can find the pattern for the tote I made on Cindy Lou's blog.

This is the new reversible tote that I made for my crocheting projects and a crochet roll to hold all the essentials that I need for individual projects. I used the Pixie Belle line of fabric from Fabricland and Stampin' Up!'s chocolate 5/8 grosgrain ribbon for the tie. Check out Sarah's blog if you are interested in buying any Stampin' Up! products. She has some awesome classes and clubs happening this fall.

The crochet roll tied up.

This is what the inside of the crochet roll looks like. I got the pattern for the crochet roll from the Sew Mama blog. I followed her instructions for everything except I didn't add binding to the edge I top stitched instead. For the first 5 pockets on the right side I used her measurements but for the rest of the pockets I just sized them for my tools.
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Tuesday, August 04, 2009

Stave Lake

We went boating this past sunday with a couple of other families. We went out to Stave Lake on two boats. We drove around until we found a little rocky nook to park and bbq hot dogs. We saw some wildlife on the side and also some campers who were tenting on the shores here and there. The kids had so much fun tubing while the Dad's all went wake or knee boarding. The water was so clean, and this beautiful green colour. It was also just the perfect temperature for cooling off, not too cold and not too warm. Since this was made by flooding a valley there were lots of trees poking out of the water, it was really important when going through the channel to stay within the bouys. All in all it was a really fun afternoon. Here are a couple of pics.






Me and Juliana


Shaelyn


Daddy and Shaelyn


Nathan all cuddled up with U. Steve