I worked on the bag all Saturday morning. As soon as I finished it, Daddy took us outside on our frozen river and taught us how to skate. Or tried to anyway. We kids had only ever been ice skating once, and that was several years ago. We fell down a lot!!!! But Daddy only fell down once. When he was taking these pictures he took a step backwards not realizing the ice was uneven there. His legs flew out from under him and he fell backwards, but thankfully the camera was not broken (nor was he).
Daddy is an absolute professional!! He can skate very fast and then just stop at the flick of a wrist, he can skate backwards, and he can even skate while holding my 2-year-old sister Corinna and shoveling the snow off the ice. Wow!
Well, the sun was setting, so we came in. It wasn't quite supper time yet, so I decided to make another bag from the pattern book. But I had to find some fabric. I didn't have a yard of cotton, but I did have a yard of corduroy that I had originally bought to make a skirt with, but couldn't find a coordinating fabric in time for it to be used for something else. :-)
The pattern called for one yard of 44" non-directional cotton, but I made it work with 42" corduroy (which is obviously directional because of the raised lines). I had to do some refiguring, but I eventually got it cut out. After supper, I started sewing the bag together. I got it almost all done that night. The next morning (Sunday), I finished the bag, and then we went ice skating. I don't think we fell quite as much that time. I'd like to think that anyway. Around noon, we came in to have lunch and get ready for church.(We have church in the afternoon.) My brother wasn't feeling very good, so I stayed home with him and Corinna. By now I was in a sewing mood, so Mommy suggested I sew some faces for hot pads. By the time they got home, I had sewed three. I will get pictures for these later, after Mommy sews the binding on.
