Weekend Wrap-Up

I finished the weekend with a nice long walk around Wash Park, 70* and sunny, everyone was out. There are always lots of dogs at the park and today I saw a few worth noting. Like the one pulling its owner on a skateboard, if you have to run the dog and don't want to run yourself, that's an option. Or the dog with the kite string tied to its collar, because if you're a kid holding that string all afternoon can get tiresome and you have this dog so......I also saw the little dog being "walked" around the park in a bicycle basket a la Toto. Ahhhh, sights at the park.

This weekend I moved out of the ski condo, I've found a home for most of the things that I brought back.

This weekend has been very sewing focused. Last week I made this little guy.

I still have to attach his ears. Yesterday I made a friend for him in the opposite fabric so he's green with polka dot ears. I hope two little kids like these because they took me a lot of time!













Last week these yummy fabrics arrived in the mail.


I bought these to make pillows for Grandmommy. I didn't quite finish but I made three of the four I was planning to make. The first one is an envelope pillow with piping I made of the same fabric of the smaller pillows.




I was hoping to make a bolster pillow out of the blue fabric but I guess that will have to be a future project.
They do look nice on my bed but I'll be bringing them to Grandmommy for hers. She likes pillows more than anyone I know!

Ski Season

Well, my ski season is officially over. I cleaned out the condo today, did some cleaning and came back to Denver to figure out where to put all my ski stuff in my apartment. Grand totals for the season:
Days skiing: 20 (Keystone:11, Breckenridge:5, A-Basin:1, Beaver Creek:1, Vail:2)
Total Vertical Feet: 343,602
Just about time to make the down payment on next year's pass!

Weekend Wrap-Up

Another weekend done. This weekend was a great weekend both in Denver and in the mountains. After much debate between flip-flops and ski boots I headed to the mountains to ski on Saturday. I'm thinking that this may have been my last weekend to ski so I wanted to get in at least one more day. I've not put in a total of 20 days on the slopes and over 343,000 vertical feet (not counting one very brief and cold day at A-Basin). The beginning of the day was icy, despite the 50 inches of snow the mountains had gotten in the past week, but I was right at home with my east coast skiing skills. It was a beautiful warm day and the snow softened up quickly.

Yes, that sign is correct, high 55-60*...

I agree that 60* is warm, especially when you're skiing but I'm not sure it was warm enough for some of the outfits I saw, especially the girl who was snowboarding in her bra! Ahhhhh, Colorado.
The snow got pretty slushy so I called it a day around 2:30 and sat on the deck at the base and enjoyed an end-of-season Sam Adams. Nothing like a beer on a sunny deck after a day of Spring skiing.

I drove back to Denver that afternoon and by the time I got back around 6:30 it was still 80*! My apartment was actually hot! As nice as it was to have some really warm sunny weather, Denver is desperate for moisture so I wasn't sad that the forecast for today was radically different. We went from this yesterday:

To this today:

Yes, that's a rain/snow mix so clearly it was colder...much colder... We've already had a handful of wildfires around Denver and it's only April 3 so I'll be happy for the wet weather and hope that it continues, at least for a little while. I spent most of the day cleaning, doing laundry and running errands. I did figure out that if you go to the Target in Glendale at 9:00am on a Sunday you'll have it all to yourself! It was almost eerily quiet when I arrived but by the time I was leaving it was starting to fill up, kids having meltdowns and all.
Well, that's it, on to another week!

Look At What I Made!

So everyone has a vice and my current vice is sewing! Last night was my pillow class and I'm very happy with the (almost) finished product. I say almost because the pillow cover is a little big for my pillow form so I'm planning to make it a little smaller for a better fit. Luckily making something smaller is much easier than making something bigger! Here is the pillow looking lovely on my couch. Too bad it looks awful with my living room chair so it probably won't be on display in my living room....but it might look good in my guest room.

My pillow has a zipper, yes, I put it in myself, and it even works as evidenced by the open and closed photos.



Now that I know I can make a pillow I'm very inspired! Sewing is so much faster than knitting and it's great to have a completed item in less than a few weeks or months.

I stopped at Fancy Tiger today to pick up a fabric I saw the other day. I knew there wasn't much left and I wanted to get some before they were out. I searched and searched and thought it was gone until I told the clerk what I was looking for and he said "I think we just put that in the remnants bin"...and there it was...at 30% off. YEAH! I love a sale! Oooooohhhhh, aaaaaahhhhhh. Maybe I'm just mildly obsessed with the upcoming royal wedding but I think it's a fun print. I'm not sure exactly what I'm going to do with it. It's 1.84 yards so that's a good amount to work with. I think it would be super cute with a crown applique but I don't know how to do that yet...I'll have to figure out a good project for it.



I also found this gem in the remnants bin, just slightly more than a yard, but might be good for a pillow...
or if I figure out how to do a quilt it might be cute in that(for reference, the pillow I made last night took a half a yard). Looks like I have more learning and practicing to do!

Weekend Wrap-Up

Well, another weekend over. This one, like so many, went too quickly. I spent Saturday skiing at Vail with Silas and Amanda. After my first trip to Vail I will admit it was probably my least favorite mountain...that first day wasn't much fun...but this Saturday was much better so I guess I can't totally cross Vail off the list yet. Saturday was warm and it was spring skiing at its best (after a few inches of fresh snow the night before).

I decided to not ski today since I woke up to snow and wind...what seemed like lots of wind. Of course after I decided not to ski the sun started to come out and it warmed up a bit so it probably wouldn't have been so bad. Back in Denver I ran some errands, did some laundry, typical weekend stuff.

Let's hope this week goes quickly and the weekend is here again soon!

Pillows

On my way home tonight I stopped at Fancy Tiger to pick up some fabric for my sewing class next week (Sewing 201 - Throw Pillow). They tell you you can just get your supplies when you show up for class but I can't make decisions that fast! Fancy Tiger has tons of great things and I really think I could take home all of it if I had enough skill to use it! After spending over 30 minutes perusing their delicious fabrics I settled on two. The colors are a little more bold than the pictures but the light in my apartment isn't great and the flash on my camera was too bright on the fabric.
This:


And this:


I had my heart set on a Liberty of London fabric but then I checked the price...at $38 per yard (yikes!) I need to be a bit more confident that whatever I'm making won't just be a blob!

I also picked up this book

because the woman at the store said it was a good one to start with. I'll let you know how it is!

Weekend Wrap-Up

Busy busy weekend, how is it possible that it's already Sunday night???

I made a big purchase this weekend, here it is....







I'm very excited and I've already been practicing. First I practiced the stitches to get a little used to the machine.

Then I made a glasses case like the one I made in a sewing class a couple weeks ago. This photo shows the one I made today of the left and the one from class on the right. I think my first one was better! Guess I need more practice!