Averett: A quick trip

We headed south last month for another quick work trip. Tim was busy at meetings and I was lucky to spend time with my sister Emily and her family. It was SO much fun! Emily and I took advantage of our slumber party and stayed up late chatting, laughing, and sewing. Let me back up, Emily called me a couple days before we came because she was looking for a specific fabric to make a beach bag she saw online. I new exactly what bag she was talking about because I had just recently got the fabric to make the exact same one! We decided we would make our bags together and it became our late-night project. We popped in a season of Murder She Wrote and got to work. We took turns at the iron and sewing machine and both ended up with a nearly finished product. We talked and laughed and sewed, it was a blast!
The next day, Em and the kiddos took me to the fabric district downtown. It was amazing! We scored 60" wide fabric for $2/yard. Knits, denim, linen, you name it and they had it for a steal. They had so many different colors and patterns of knit to choose from, I ended up with tons to make into maxi skirts. Charlie and Lucy were so fun to shop with and we had a great time. They would play together and make each other laugh so hard, it was adorable! After shopping, we met Tim back at their house and hung out until we left to fly home. It was a quick and wonderful trip!

Charlie was showing me how to play the saxophone like a trombone!

This is Em's bag. She is an incredibly talented seamstress and her bag is pretty much perfect.

This is my completed bag. Too bad you can't see how I cut the fabric wrong so the entire bag is vertical stripes, or the inverted pleats I added to make the bottom of the bag fit! I love how it turned out though and know I will get a lot of use out of it!