i know you were all anxious about whether or not i finished eric's running shirt in time for our oregon running trip. fear not, i delivered! (i might have stayed up until 2 am finishing this the night before we left... i had school that next day too... it was rough.)
here's the bday boy modeling the shirt on day 2 of our run. we ran 25.9 miles total! 5.5 on day 1, 10.2 on day 2, 10.2 on day 3. unfortunately, the straps on eric's backpack chafed the fabric so much that now there's lots of pilling along where the straps lay. so sad. i thought this wicking fabric was so cool, but apparently it didn't survive past 3 days of bag-chafing. he still has it and wears it, but it just doesn't look as crisp as it does here.
the running was STUNNING. the mckenzie river trail goes through dried lava beds, old growth forest, hot springs, turquoise lakes. the trees were gargantuan. here's little eric making his way around one of them.
we spent the last day in portland. this might be my favorite picture from the trip: a book-lover playing in the aisles of powell's. he brought back a paper bag filled with books. we checked out this mega bookstore after our anniversary dinner, hence why he's dressed so dapper. if you zoom in closely, you may recognize the tie from a series that i made him a while back!
on our return back to brooklyn, before we realized how pilly the fabric would get, i dove into making another running shirt for eric from the last bits of the yard i bought. not bad, right? 1 yard = 2 running shirts. well almost... i just ran out, so the front had to be cobbled together. eric wasn't thrilled with the 2 bottom pieces: he kept saying it looked like a skirt. we checked in with shirley, and while she claimed it didn't look like a skirt, she did say it looked very much like i ran out of fabric. "just work your helen magic on it to fix it," she recommended.
so, i made the split in the bottom panel functional: i built in a pocket into the right half! i added a bottom layer to the lower right panel and sewed in a lapped zipper so that it would be semi-hidden. now eric has a place to store his keys or whatever other nonsense he needs to carry with him while he goes for a run.
nifty, right? i hate the bunching of the material when it isn't worn. it makes the shirt look sloppily made. however, this shirt was sewn with much better stitching and more ample seams than the first one, so it fits him at the armpits better. SIGH, if only the material were nicer.
this weekend, we finished building a greenhouse for the kale and some of the collards! we've also got a pepper plant in there too. we picked up an awesome piece of plastic off the side of the street that we've been saving for a year. such the perfect use for it!!
it's tall enough so that even we can fit inside, seeing as we're both of such staggering height hehe.
poor bunksy, the naughty boy, ate a small bag of trail mix that we got for our oregon trip, and gave himself quite the tummy ache. candied almonds, raisins, dried cranberries, pepitas, walnuts. you'd think these were all fine for a rabbit, but the sugar really did a number on his digestion. we stayed in this weekend to keep the poor boy company and to nurse him back to health, so in the meanwhile i baked cookies! chocolate peanut butter cream cushions, from a book that my dear aunt stella gave me back when i was 9?
think a french macaron but filled with peanut butter butter cream! i even reduced the sugar content of the filling AND mixed in some wheat flour with the regular flour to up the healthiness factor of it. always thinking of our health, hehe. oh speaking of health, i forgot to note that bunks is now fine. back to cat-chasing and his general ramBUNKtiousness hehehhehe!
i'm now in the midst of parent teacher conferences, and had started a dress for the conferences, but you know how this story will end... i probably won't finish my dress on time. even if i pulled an all-nighter tonight to "make it work." sigh. you'll never see me survive on project runway.
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