Waaaaay back in 2003 I made Mark a rope bag.  In the tutorial post, I promised I would add pictures eventually.  Well, apparently eventually=7 years later.  Here you go, if you would like to see pictures of my rope bag, which, I might add, is *still in use* after only minor repairs over the years.

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Whoops, didn’t realize I was supposed to pick my pattypan squashes as 3-4 inch babies, so I’ve got one monster.  Hopefully it’ll still be tender enough to eat.

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Ever since we moved, I’ve been thinking about getting chickens.  Not entirely sure why, but they seem like they would be fun.  I’ve been half-heartedly searching Craigslist for the last 6 months or so looking at chicken coops.  They all seemed either ridiculously expensive or really shoddy.  Plan B was building one.  Procrastination pays off sometimes, though: a coworker was giving this away to make room for a bigger coop!  What luck!

I just need to reinforce a few of the joins, reattach the ramp, and line the bottom with hardware cloth, and it’ll be good to go.  We also need to put in a gate so the chickens can range around in the back yard.  I signed up for the city chickens class from Seattle Tilth, but we’ll see if I can actually wait until September….

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Easy baby shower presents: waffle weave trimmed in tape.  I made a wide tape for the blanket, and a narrow tape for the burp clothes.  I always like working with geometrics because it takes all the guesswork out of cutting straight.  The original plan was to make a stuffed toy of some variety to go as well, but I ran out of time.  Maybe once the baby’s born.

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