I-pad

I wanted to make Kurt a case for his new i-pad. I had something in mind like Melinda made for her kindle and showed on the selvage blog.
Kurt had other ideas of course. He picked out suede in black and gray. It is basically just two rectangles of fabric sewn pillowcase style, right sides together and then turned and top stitched. I inserted a little pocket for cords and such under the cover flap. It needs a little strip of velcro and that will be the end. I couldn't talk him into a nifty strap or handle or anything.
I got most of Judy's June Mystery cut out this morning while the girls were at ice skating. Kurt took Ryan to a chess workshop and played volleyball at the beach. Then this afternoon I dropped Sydney at a birthday party and went to get my toes AND nails done. Very fancy! I even had lunch while I was out and peacefully read a book with no interruptions. I was done with all of that just in time to pick Sydney up again and have a bit of birthday cake before heading home. Life just doesn't get much better than that.
It looks like a rainy evening, daily thunderstorm season has started around here this week. I have an urge to sew into the wee hours, but I am going to try to be good so that I can get up bright and early for a nice long run. Time will tell whether my good intentions are good enough. Crumb Cake is loaded onto the HQ16, I don't think it would take too long to quilt that up after dinner. I wonder if I have any thread that will work?

Little Projects

There has been quite a bit of running around going on here which hasn't allowed much time for large amounts of progress. So instead I'm working away at projects in little bits of time. I finally finished the last little bit of binding on Whirlygiggles so I can promote I Spy to binding bullet on the list. Tonight is the season premiere of Royal Pains, so that will be the perfect binding sewing time. I thought about taking some Dear Jane blocks to swim team, but that seemed risky with the wind and water and sunscreen. So instead I had the girls pick out a skein of cotton yarn from the sale bin at Joann's and made a dishcloth. It worked up really quick and didn't require much concentration. I Googled a couple of patterns but just ended up winging it. 25 double crochets per row until it seemed square and then two circles of single crochets around the perimeter with a little loop added to one corner in case I want to hang it up.
Kurt's anniversary present finally came in. I was bummed that it was late (our anniversary is the same as my birthday is the same as my mom's birthday). He was going to get me an i-Pad before I committed to the HQ16, so I went ahead and got one for him. He was pleasantly surprised and having lots of fun now playing with all of the aps and figuring out how he can use it. He hopes to be able to take it on business trips and use it in meeting instead of a laptop.