The winds have not been favorable these past couple of days.  Did finally see some sunshine.  Since flying was out of the question, I contented myself with sewing.  Seems I do my best sewing in the mornings and late, late at night.  The outlining on the Penelope kite is almost done.  It’s gone a lot faster than I expected.  That leads me to conclude one of two things.  Either I’m getting better at sewing for applique or this pattern is much easier than Pepe.  Let’s massage my ego a  bit and say I’m getting better.

Tomorrow looks like it will be a good day for our weekly Sunday morning club fly.  Our “fearless leader” will be staying in town this weekend and, hopefully, will be bringing some new goodies to try out.  I have requested that he bring the Vamp Devil quad line kite.  I had sworn off quad line kites until I saw this little cutie.  It is a fun bat-looking kite, so different from the Revolution style quad line kite.  So I’m giving quad line a try.  Leave it to me to fly something so different from what everyone else has.  That’s been my style.  Fly something different and distinctive.  You can usually tell when I’m flying before you get out of your car.  Just look in the sky for my White Bird dragons or my Xelons or a vintage dual line kite.

Plans were completed today for a kite day at a local grade school.  I will be out-of-town so the honors go to my flying partner and husband.  He is getting help from the kite shop staff and friends.  Hopefully, they will be able to put a couple of kites in the air and then help the kids launch and fly theirs.  They’re flying on a soccer field so there’s no telling how the wind will be.

Well. I’ve either got to sew or go to bed now.  There’s no sleeping in tomorrow morning.

Fair Winds All.

No, this post is not about flying kites indoors.  I have no kites that are light enough to fly indoors and I have enough trouble walking forward most times much less walking backward and trying to control the flight of a kite.  No, this is about my new kite project, indoors.

I have begun work on the companion for Pepe.  I got the pattern transferred to the white ripstop and layered the three colors together.  Working into the wee hours of the morning, I have hot tacked the layers together and they are now ready for sewing.  The hardest part of all of this was getting the dimensions the same as the Pepe kite.  They are to be a pair so they must be the same.  The measurements are not exact but, as several of my kiting friends have told me, who can tell when they’re 75 to 100 feet in the air.  So I have given up on my perfectionism and come awful close.

Today is a scrapbook day for me so I’m planning on sewing tomorrow afternoon.  And on Saturday and on Sunday.  I don’t think I will get it done and sparred before the upcoming kite building workshop but I hope to have the skin completed to show the other kite builders.

The weather outlook for the next few days is bleak.  Rain today and high winds, really high, for the weekend.  Maybe by June the weather will stabilize to something we can enjoy.  That’s about as optimistic as I can get right now.

Fair Winds All.