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bags, Heidi, Kirkland, Lake Easton State Park, sewing, Totem Lake, travel, Washington
(Sunday Sevens is a weekly blog series in which we share some photos from our week. The ever-fabulous Natalie steers the Mother Ship.)
A busy week and another weekend away!
Monday, I took on my least favorite household task. Behold this magnificence:
The good news is that I’ve finally found a pattern to make with that white embroidered cotton. The bad news is that it involves this mess:
Partner asked me for a new cycling bag in the hope of having it for the weekend’s bike ride. He likes to keep his brevet card, ID, cash, and phone in a simple zippered bag that he can grab when he gets off the bike to go in a store or restaurant.
Here’s his old one, which I made maybe a year ago:
He decided he wanted a black one out of a fabric with a little more body. We found some in the stash and I used the tutorial that Beth recommended here. I changed the dimensions and added a phone pocket to the front and loops for him to attach the nylon cord that he uses for a shoulder strap. I used plain white broadcloth for the lining so that it would be easier to find things inside.
I would have liked to take more pictures, but he immediately grabbed it and stashed it in his bike stuff somewhere. He and I were both very pleased with how it turned out. Many thanks to Beth for the very handy tutorial!
On Friday, we headed to Kirkland (a suburb of Seattle) so that my honey could do a 400k ride on Saturday morning.
I am fairly certain that the fact that this “art” in our hotel room was bolted to the table is not the reason I didn’t sneak it into my purse and take it home with me.
Saturday I met up with my BFF Heidi and we spent some time wandering around Kirkland.
PLEASE enlarge these pics–you totally need turtles and baby ducks on a Monday.
On Sunday, we headed home, with a quick stop at Lake Easton State Park to check out their campground.
Yep, I guess that’ll do for next month’s camping trip. 😉
Have a great week, everybody, and get outside for a bit if you can.
STH
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I’m glad to have helped! Your bag looks great. I love the cute animal photos!
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Thank you! Hope your Monday was a good one (I think you’re 9 hours ahead of us)!
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Well it’s 20:52 and I’m currently sat in severe traffic on the motorway after going to stay at my mum’s which was nice although my mum’s car broke down on the way to the circus! Luckily we did get there – although my mum didn’t – and it was fantastic!! Hope you have a nice day!!
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The bag is great! How clever you are at putting in all the right features. Lucky partner you have!! By the way, you are invited to come here and motivate me to clean my oven 🙂 (I do it rarely, I admit it, but should soon before my friend housesits for me.) So nice to see your beautiful nature pics and to hear that you spent a lovely weekend in good company. That art reminds me of art that they put in my office building recently, but on a monumental scale. Each time I pass them (there are many) I shake my head. What were they thinking!?
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Oh, he’s totally spoiled and he knows it. 😉 He’s great to sew for because he knows exactly what he wants, but he’s not pig-headed about it–if something won’t work the way he envisions it, I tell him that and we come up with another way to do it.
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Aw, the turtles and the ducks get all the oooo’s and arrrrr’s from me, so cute! And the trees are HUGE! 😀
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Yeah, the western part of Washington state is pretty spectacular! Here on the eastern side of the mountains . . . not so much. 😉
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Oh, you remind me I need to clean my oven. Not really a big deal with mine except that I’m a little afraid of the “self-cleaning” setting. It sort of freaks me out that it gets something like as hot as the surface of Venus.
Love the turtles and the ducks.
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Yeah, I’m a little freaked out by self-cleaning cycles as well. Better to do it now than when it’s full summer, though.
I’m glad you enjoyed the animals–we loved them, too!
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