Totes Adorbs

We had such fun in the tote bag class yesterday. Five students registered but one couldn’t make it due to sickness. Two students were new, one of whom had taken up sewing again after a long hiatus. And each finished tote was very different.

Ardyce made one with a waxed canvas base and wool for the body:

Jenny made hers with waxed canvas for the base and a Sevenberry canvas for the body:

Nancy, the lady who has rediscovered sewing, made hers with Kaufman Brussels Washer Linen for the base (nice) and canvas for the body. We all loved how she made her lining peek over the top edge:

And Jennifer made hers with a waxed canvas base and a bee print canvas for the body.

All of the students had Bernina machines, so I was able to introduce them to the wonders of the #10 edgestitch foot for topstitching. I think that’s my favorite presser foot, no lie.

Over our lunch break, I checked on the status of the Joanns auction. As of close of business, nothing had yet been decided. It sounds like one of the bidders asked for additional financial information. I guess we won’t know anything definitive until next week.

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One of the patterns I picked up last week was this older McCall’s pattern:

I bought it because View C has that shawl collar detail and this saves me from having to draft it from scratch.

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The weather is about to get very messy. There is an atmospheric river coming in to the west coast. We are supposed to get rain beginning this afternoon and we’re under a flood watch. (We live on the side of a mountain, so flooding is one thing we don’t have to worry about, but other areas in the valley do.) Temps have warmed up enough that the two feet of snow piled up on the roof is sliding off, which makes it sound like we’re under attack.

Seattle may get a windstorm tomorrow night and into Monday. That won’t affect my drive over, but the forecast is making it look worse than the windstorm that happened in November. That one knocked out power to some of the suburbs for almost a week.