Jennifer's 365 Project

It's been a pretty good day.
It got even better when we tried out the door jumper we bought. He had fun in it and watching his stuffed animal swing in it.

 Comfort, Adam and Corinne came by this afternoon for lunch and a movie to celebrate my last few days of being off before my FMLA is exhausted.

We wayched a crazy movie called Summer Wars and had tasty KFC.

Quinn enjoyed being rocked to sleep by Corinne.
 Later in the evening I finished off one of the quilts my mom gave me. She dropped off several quilts she started that just needed to be suffer and quilted.

I don't have a walking foot, but the blankets are very small so I thought I'd risk it.
there was some slight puckering from the fabric moving faster on the bottom (where the feed dogs are pulling it) than the top (where there are no feed dogs), but By in large the machine quilting worked out. We now have a larger blanket for the little one to lay on.

As it turns out, there is quite a bit of stuff I may need to carry with me at one time in my pump bag. So I needed a way to close it.

Originally I was going to just sew in magnetic clasps, but once I bought a cooler for the breastmilk, I realized the bag wasn't going to close easily.

I decided to add a zipper. I cut the leg off of one of my old khaki pants since it matched the color of the bag pretty closely. I also reinforce the back of the zipper with fusible interfacing so it would be able to withstand the opening and closing.
I've never sewn a zipper before and while it was easier than I thought it would be, I mad the whole project a lot more complicated. Because I'd already added pockets earlier, the suggestions to create a zipper and sew it to a lining (which would then be sewn to the bag) wouldn't work.

I ended up sewing the zipper along the upper portion of the bag opening. I made the whole zipper top wider and longer than it needed to be so I'd be able to over-stuff the bag if need be and it would still close. But that meant that there's corners that are open that need to be sealed and some of the fabric bunched in places.

The stitching is also messed up on the side of the bag because I had the tension wrong. I'm having a hard time figuring out tension still. I really need to sit down and experiment with different fabrics and make sure I have the right needle. Luckily it's hard to see on this project. I'll definitely need more practice to add a zipper to things as well.

Floor time is super fun!

We headed out this morning for a trip to the Karath grandparents. The first stop was grandpa Karath.

Quinn had a good time playing on the ground, laughing his little silent laugh and watching everything.
Later in the afternoon we stopped at grandma Karath's house for an early Mother's Day celebration.

Quinn had a fun time there too, watching her jewelry and looking at all the new things.

Leki is slowly getting more curious. It helps if we put Quinn in interesting places.

Yes, we are having fun this week With Star Wars.

...be with you.

It's pretty warm out, so we decided to go down to Palmer Park, which is better shaded than Oriole Park. It's been awhile since I've wandered around there and it looks like there is a newer paved path area. Or I just never noticed it before. Either way it's stroller friendly, which I like!

It's Free Comic Book Day today! We dressed up the little one as Captain America, in honor of the Avengers movie that opened yesterday, and went downtown to the comic shop.

Avengers Age of Ultron opens this weekend. we both want to see the movie, but obviously you can't take a 10 week old to an action movie and expect them to stay calm the whole time.

Plus we watch Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., which ties into the movie. In order to keep watching the show we wanted to see the movie. Otherwise we'd have to stop (to avoid spoilers) until we got out to see the film.
So we decided to tag team it. I would see the earliest showing they had for the day while Chris stayed home. Then when I got home he'd go out and meet up with Adam, Comfort, and Dan to watch it mid-afternoon. Then everyone would come back to our place to talk about it.

While doing it this way made it an all day affair, everything worked out pretty good. We can definitely do this again for Ant-Man in July. Aside from that there probably isn't anything else we will see in theaters until December for Star Wars that is.