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learning to sew again

  • Posted on November 3, 2011 at 4:52 pm

i just finished taking a course on sewing knits so i could make t-shirts for everyone. unfortunately the class ended up being designed for people who really didn’t know how to sew, so it mostly turned into 2-1/2 hours a week that i could dedicate to sewing with no distractions. probably worth it if that was all i got out of it, but i did learn a few good tricks and was able to extrapolate on some of her other ideas to solve my main problems, so it was a good class.

kiri volunteered to come with me and be a test model. (once she volunteered all the little girls wanted to come, but there just wasn’t enough room.) it was nice to have some one on one time, something sorely lacking around here some days 🙂

most of what i did was trying different ideas, which made for interesting t-shirts with each seam done differently 😆 however i did get one jacket almost finished. i forgot to bring the buttons with me, and the pattern will require some tweaking before i do the next one, but i think it ended up cute anyway and kiri gets to keep this one for her help instead of selling it on etsy.

anyway here is a picture of her in the unfinished jacket
my test model
just ignore the pin and pretend it has buttons

kiri also decided to cut her hair. she said it kept getting in the way when she was taking her shirt on and off. we trimmed it into this short bubble cut and now her straight hair has some wave to it, who knew? i think it looks cute and really suits her
kiri bubble cut

beezie and smidge explore highwood trail

  • Posted on November 3, 2011 at 10:27 am

peekaboo

just hanging out

upsidedown

exploring

beezie

smidge

bear grass abounds but where are the bears?

  • Posted on November 2, 2011 at 7:49 am

bear grass

migrating peacocks

  • Posted on November 1, 2011 at 4:08 pm

peacock migration

an ostentation of peacocks looking for warmer climes.

i'm late, i'm late

“i’m late, i’m late, they’re leaving without me!”

poetry

  • Posted on October 29, 2011 at 1:40 pm

i think that i will never see, a poem as lovely as a tree….

birch catkins

quote from joyce kilmer’s poem “trees”

from pink to red

  • Posted on October 28, 2011 at 6:43 pm

red mountain heather
alpine heather

shooting star trio
shooting star

subalpine spiraea
subalpine spiraea

red paintbrush
indian paintbrush

autumn comes early

  • Posted on October 28, 2011 at 12:05 am

rainbow plant

red and green

early fall pictures i just hadn’t got around to publishing.  i love these colors

neither fish nor fowl….

  • Posted on October 26, 2011 at 4:18 pm

this is the kind of day i abhor the most, the sky cold and gray, the world brown and drear, without even the leavening of a white blanket of snow. summer is over, the fall colors are gone and i am left to dream of spring – a long way off. it takes a lot of effort to find beauty in a day like this, with none of autumn’s glory nor yet winter’s charm. this picture perhaps suits the day. the flower like the weather neither true flower nor yet seedhead, neither fish nor fowl…
creamy white wildflower

bow glacier falls with digory

  • Posted on October 26, 2011 at 9:34 am

lunch break

today we decided to hike to bow glacier falls, an amazing hike. it was a cool drizzly day, the kind i like best for hiking in. just cool enough to not overheat, enough rain to be refreshing, and enough sun to not get more than damp. digory wore his new red sweater to keep warm. i need to make him a raincoat if we are going to go hiking often. but in typical boy fashion a little mud and water with no soap in sight just made it all the more fun!

the rocks were amazingly diverse, scattered across the valley where the glacier had advanced and receded long ago. the rocks mixed with iron oxide had rusty orange patterns, i nice change from the usual gray rocks found around here.

digory at bow glacier falls 2

the water tumbled over the cliffs in large and small streams so we ended up hiking through the low creek beds which covered the whole valley.  i’m sure later in the season it is drier but fording the water on larger rocks was actually kind of fun.  it was challenging to find larger rocks on which to rest and look around.  we took advantage of the ones we found.

larkspur

  • Posted on October 24, 2011 at 10:44 pm

larkspur3

i love the color in this flower, such a gorgeous combination of blue and purple. it would make a lovely dress for one of my girls, maybe an iridescent dupioni silk would come close.