A Very Canadian Finish

 

A friend is going to Great Britain in a couple of weeks, so I made her a travel wallet.  I decided to go full Canadian on this one.

The bag is 28cm by 18cm  or 11"x 7" . The pattern is Globetrot Travel Sling by ChrisW Designs. 

The front has a zipper pocket and a slip pocket. The slip pocket can hold your phone, and the zippered pocket can hold your keys, wipes, stuff you want to access in a hurry.

It has another zipper pocket on the back. The back pocket can hold your passport, travel documents, credit card, anything you want to keep close. The pockets are all waterproof canvas. 

Everything was in my stash. The red tone on tone was from Northcott's Canada Our Home and Native Land. The flag fabric is from Stonehenge Oh Canada Classic. Both have been waiting for the right project. 

The bag is quite thin, suitable to be worn under your coat.  I hope she has a safe and happy trip.

Knitting and Geocaching

 We love to Geocache when we travel, but we haven't done a lot of travelling lately. This weekend was warm, and sunny and geocaching seemed like a good idea. In case you don't know, geocaching is a reason for a walk in the woods, as you try to find "caches" or small hidden containers, using a GPS.

In 2008, I taught geocaching at an inhouse day camp of a local tech company. For the camp, I hide a container on the nearby hiking trails. That container is still there (amazingly), but was in need of some TLC so we took our favourite Gr. 4 student off to the woods to find it.

As you can see, we weren't the only ones enjoying the nice weather. Nothing could be more iconic that a pair of Canada Geese standing next to a maple tree!

The mornings have been wooly sock weather, so more socks need to be made. I am working on a pair of socks in Christmas stripes.

My silly bird picture of the first sock, the sock is now finished. The second is well on the way.

I received some nail stickers, and I put a couple on to see if that would inspire me to get back to sewing.

They may be helping. I cut out the pieces for a new bag, today. If things go well, it will be done by the end of the week.

Hotumn

 I saw the term Hotumn on social media and thought that defined it. Our weather has been going up and down. Today it is 13C, while on the weekend it was 31C. However, it still looks like autumn.

The flowers are still doing their thing.

Meanwhile, I've been knitting, and frogging.

This baby sweater will never be finished, so I got real and turned it into yarn I can make hats and mitts from.

My September socks got finished, 4 days into October. Mudd helped with the photos.

I was helping a friend learn how to quilt on her machine, so we made Hemmingway style bags. These are our first ones (a pair of fat quarters makes 2 bags.)

It was a lot of fun to sew together.

I actually got a start on a new bag. I have the card pocket panel finished.

One should always check to make sure that a credit card actually fits in the pocket. I once sewed a bag together without checking and one side was just a tiny bit too small, and the cards didn't fit on one side. Lesson learned.

I made a quick project bag for a friend, and added a ball of yarn and a pattern for mittens. I thought she needed a project bag for waiting rooms and the like.

The epic clear out continues. It is amazing how many things you realize you just don't need. We took a car load of stuff to the church flea market. Hopefully it all sold and raised some money for the church. 

It is Thanksgiving weekend in Canada. No big excitement, no turkey, just a quiet weekend, with nothing that needs to be done. Hope you all have a peaceful weekend.