Good progress on the 9

I managed to get all the seams stitched down with the decorative stitch. Next I sewed the end of the pouches and cut out the corners.

I like to tack the end of the zipper for extra security and that is done on all nine.

So these nine are very close to being done! All that is left to do is stitch the two corners, stitch the other end closed, cut in the corners, stitch those corners and insert the handle. My goal this weekend is to see how many I can get made of the remaining pouches that are ready for sewing. I think I counted 47.

I had to take a break from sewing last evening to mow the grass. Gosh, it has been growing fast! Of course after I was done I had to go next door and check out their landscaping project and the let the neighbor across the cul-de-sac that he could bring the tree limbs he was cutting over to the woods at the back of my yard where I let him take his other yard waste.

Have a great weekend!

9 in progress

This next group of boxy pouches is nine. I can use the same color of thread so that makes for quicker construction. Last night I sewed in the rest of the zippers, pressed them, and topstitched next to the zippers

The next step was to sew the two halves together and pressed the seam open

I was happy with getting this much done on all 9. The next step will be to stitch down the seams. I like to do this to keep the seam flat, keep the seam from fraying, and it adds a bit of stiffness and structure to the pouch. You could use any kind of decorative stitch; I use a staggered zig zag.

Are you following along and making one for yourself?

Another 4

I had the slows yesterday. I was sore all over from moving those rocks so I didn't get as much done with the sewing because I was so tired. I did manage to get those four boxy pouches done

and I got the next group started. I had to wind some bobbins and I got the zippers in sewn in four of the nine future pouches. I also got the handles topstitched and trimmed. It was at least a start.

I feel better today as the soreness is gone.

4 more done

Last evening I finished those four boxy pouches

and I got four more started. These four won't take long to finish. I would have finished them but I had a chicken that had been in the crock pot all day and I needed to pick the meat off the bones.

What a weekend

My brother brought over the new table for the merchandise booth for my nephew's band. We have more merch and the table we were using is just too small anymore. I will have four different CD's to sell now instead of the two we had and this season we added patches.

So with the table my brother brought me fabric to make a table cover. This was my job Saturday morning. I was happy the way it turned out. The zippered pockets come in handy and I made this side shorter so it would be easy to get stuff we store underneath easier to access. Look at those rounded corners!

I got a delivery of 3,360 pounds of rocks on Saturday. My plans are to re-do the borders of my flower bed.

I got started on digging out the old plastic border on Sunday.

What drove me crazy was the amount the flower bed had sunk in relationship to the yard. I have been adding sweet peat to the flower bed over the years, but it was still so much lower.

I got started on digging out the grass, putting in barrier cloth, then setting a few stones. Oh, this is going to be a lot of work! What on earth did I get myself into? LOL!! I will just do a little bit at a time and eventually I will get it done. Once I get the border set, I will dig out the plants, dump a bunch of the new dirt I bought into the bed, and replant the plants. I am using bricks to fill in underneath the decorative rocks. This is what I have done so far.

I decided to sort out the rocks by size. I spend about a half hour and am about half way done. I needed to dig out the bigger rocks. Here they are with the smaller ones in the front.

I spent Saturday afternoon ironing on the interfacing and pressing the handles to what will become 65 boxy pouches.

I got these four that had been partially put together finished.

Then I have these four almost done. I had sorted the cut out pieces by the color of thread I will use so I could just keep sewing in an assembly line fashion and not change thread color. I have someone who is going to sell these for me at a show on the 25th so I have a lot of sewing to do in the next 10 days.

Stick a fork in me ...

I'm done! I don't know how long it took me last evening to finish this up because I was rummaging around in the garage for awhile looking for stuff I needed to take to work before I started on the yard. I lost track of time. It took four or five half wheelbarrows of dirt - that dirt was heavy and that is all I could handle in one trip down the hill - to fill in the rut left from the bricks and to fill in an ankle breaker hole that has been in the yard for years. I threw down some grass seed I had from last year and now mother nature needs to water it.

Work was rough yesterday as I had to help put up one of the temporary fences that the wind blew down. There was another woman and a fellow that was shadowing us yesterday that had to get the fence back in place. It was not an easy job and I wasn't exactly happy about doing it. It was hard even though we took some of the fence panels apart into sections we thought we could handle. This picture is only half of the fence that blew down.

Other things I get to do at work - change the dirty filters in the HEPA machine

Set out the sticky mats outside the doors where the demo guys haul out the debris

and use a Swiffer to get the footprints the workers leave in the hallway to the elevators. The battle with dirt containment is constant.

So that is the glamorous side of construction - LOL!!!

I haven't decided what I am going to do this weekend except I know there will be sewing going on! The forecast is calling for rain Saturday and Sunday so after work I will need to mow the grass, but after that I am headed to the studio.

Have a great weekend!

Another hour?

Yes, I was surprised last evening when it took me another hour of work to try to get the fire pit area in shape. I weed wacked, I raked, picked up debris, wacked again, raked again and found a few more bricks hidden under all that stuff.

I ended up with another wheel barrow of yard waste which will go into another area of the yard for composting.

There was a mound on the one side so I got out the pitch fork to try and figure out if it was just grass or dirt.

It turned out to be a mound of dirt and a colony of ants had made it home. I broke the mound up and after an hour the area is looking pretty good. I still need to add some dirt where the bricks were buried in the ground, but I was just too tired to do that job. We are getting rain for the next couple of days so that will help settle everything down before I start adding the dirt.