It was my first free weekend at home in a month, and I got to do so much! My house is clean, I got to spend some time in the ceramics studio (bit by bit I'm regaining my old skills)...
I bought myself a ticket to see The National. They're not coming til October, but it should be well worth the wait. Check 'em out
here, if you want.
Library loot! I got my library card--which never ceases to be exciting--and this is what I came away with for now. I've got a few holds on other sewing books. The
Built by Wendy Dresses
book has some fun ideas in it. Hopefully I'll have time to make something before I have to send the book back to the library. I'm hoping the
Threads Fitting DVD Series
will help me figure out how to get a better fit on this tricky vintage dress I started months ago.
Bag Bazaar
would be a good starter book for people interested in sewing bags. The patterns I'm interested in are fairly simple though, I could probably figure them out on my own.
There happened to be a street fair outside the library, so I stopped by and picked up some free Lara bar samples. Yum!
I also walked around the art museum for the first time, and snapped some pottery inspiration photos:
The handle and spout on this South American pot are so elegant.
And I love the simple yet striking designs on these pots.
Not exactly awesome, but I've decided, after all, to unpick the messy free-motion circles from my quilt. It's just too frustrating and slow to try to do this on a queen-sized quilt on my tiny sewing machine! I was pretty crazy to think this would be a successful idea for my second time quilting ever, but hey, I like to dream big. Once I finally unpick the edge I started, I'm going to machine quilt in a zig-zag pattern following the blocks. Hopefully that will be more instant gratification!
I bought myself a ticket to see The National. They're not coming til October, but it should be well worth the wait. Check 'em out here, if you want.
Library loot! I got my library card--which never ceases to be exciting--and this is what I came away with for now. I've got a few holds on other sewing books. The Built by Wendy Dresses
There happened to be a street fair outside the library, so I stopped by and picked up some free Lara bar samples. Yum!
I also walked around the art museum for the first time, and snapped some pottery inspiration photos:
The handle and spout on this South American pot are so elegant.
And I love the simple yet striking designs on these pots.
Not exactly awesome, but I've decided, after all, to unpick the messy free-motion circles from my quilt. It's just too frustrating and slow to try to do this on a queen-sized quilt on my tiny sewing machine! I was pretty crazy to think this would be a successful idea for my second time quilting ever, but hey, I like to dream big. Once I finally unpick the edge I started, I'm going to machine quilt in a zig-zag pattern following the blocks. Hopefully that will be more instant gratification!
3 comments:
Oh my gosh!! I was at that same festival yesterday! My sister in law graduated from DU on Friday, so my husband and I went out there for the whole weekend. We actually ate lunch at Mad Greens at the museum yesterday around 2pm then walked around the outside of the library (very cool building). How funny if we passed right by each other and had no idea`!
A library card and a concert in the near future--what could be better? Now I've got to see if the National is coming out here!
I love my library - they were just voted the nation's #1 library!!! My out of control book budget became much more manageable when I got my library card - I "preview" everything through the library before buying.
Post a Comment