Westonbirt sprint triathlon 2014

I really love racing at Westonbirt, the scenery is beautiful and I got lucky again with the weather during my race. I did this race last year too. This year I marginally improved by 1min :) it would have been more but I managed to dither longer in transition this time. Importantly I beat my boss by 10mins and Kate, Alex and little Edward turned up at the end to say hi. This race was organised by DB Max. s 400m, b 24km, r 5km. Completed in 1hr 48m 9secs

City of Bath Triathlon

Yay, I got to finally do this race again. This was my first ever triathlon 2 years ago and there were quite a few people doing it as their first one this year too. It wasn't quite the same, as the swim was only 400m rather than 750m. The bike route seemed very similar to how I remembered it, very hilly and the run seemed similar but didn't end on the race track this time.

It was still impossible to get out at the end of the pool, this time I swam to the side and got out there instead.

swim: 400m bike: 23k, run 5k

Organised by DBMax and Bath Amphibians

Results

Rhubarb Jam

I was running out of jam and there was lots of new rhubarb growing in the garden and some of last year's frozen in the freezer.

I made Ginger and Rhubarb jam, it isn't as gingery as I'd like but it's still yummy. 

 

Dragon Patch

Another patch for a pair of trousers, this time it was on stretchy fabric. I need to do some playing around with the tension on my machine as the first attempt didn't work at all and all the bobbin thread was pulled into the front. I only tricked it into working by putting the same colour bobbin thread as top thread.

I used the Gilded Heraldry - Dragon design and made it slightly smaller so it would fit on Gabe's trousers.

Here's the finished result:

Big T Sprint

Bank holiday Monday and it's the first triathlon of the year :) I was a little nervous but felt fine as soon as I started swimming.

Organised by Hot Chilli Tri Club

swim: 400m, bike: 25k, run 5k

A mostly flat course which was a nice surprise, so unlike the Bath Triathlon I'll be doing later this month.

No medal for this one, but I did get an oversized T-shirt, yay! Finished in about 2hours 6mins.

Ripple blanket

For Kate and Alex's new baby I made a ripple blanket. He took so long to appear I managed to finish it in time :)

This pattern is available as a free Ravelry download.

BSG patches

1/05/2014

A Scylla patch

27/04/2014

Next I used a spring leaf design to create a logo for the Agrius (a hydroponics ship).

02/03/2014
My character has somehow become a viper pilot in the BattleStar Galactica game I'm playing in, so I felt she needed an appropriate outfit. I found an excellent jacket from a charity shop and a friendly designer +Lynellen Perry with an Etsy Shop  :)

 

Another Pair of Patched Jeans

I decided to patch another pair of jeans that I ripped a hole in when I fell off my bike. This one I stitched onto a different piece of fabric which is going to fray and then handstitched it to the jeans. Hopefully it will only fray to the edge of the stitching and my handsewing will hold up. Oooh experiments...