Canceled show, brownies and Project bags

Saturday my nephew's band had a show schedule for a place about 2 1/2 - 3 hours away. I made a batch of brownies as a treat. I knew I had to leave a bit earlier to get to my brother's house because the marathon was going on. I wanted to make sure that traffic didn't make me late since my neighborhood was surrounded with road closings. As it turned out I was just getting ready to leave and I got the phone call the gig had been cancelled due to rain.  The brownies were given to my neighbors instead.  Her mother has passed away and they were having a family dinner that evening so now they had dessert.

I then spent Saturday doing laundry, dishes, and working on project bags. I got the vinyl and interfacing all cut. My order for zippers was delivered. I bought enough to get the discounted price and free shipping.

Now that I had the zippers I needed, I set up the extra table and got all the bags and their parts laid out.

I got these six done.

These are ready to have the zipper panel trimmed to size.

I will continue to sew all the bags that need the navy thread. I will switch to the bags that need a different color thread and sew all those. I will be working on these all week. When I switch to another color I will give you some step by step pictures so you can see how I put these together.  They are not hard to make; just a bit fussy. 

I did work on the sampler a bit. Here is where I was the last time I posted and where I am now.

It rained here all day Saturday and Sunday. I had some thistle coming up in the center flower bed that I needed to pull before it went to seed. I got the unbrella and pulled a half a dozen in the rain. I also had to trim the zebra grass. It was so wet that the blades were splayed out and were bent into the the neighbor's driveway. I got it trimmed still using the unbrella, but I had to put the unbrella down to rake the trimmings so I got a little wet. Nothing like gardening in the rain! LOL!!!