Pillow Poll

I have two 20" square pillow forms and 5/8 yards of each of these two fabrics. Should I make the pillows reverse to each other or to themselves?

AB + AB or  AA + BB?

Girly Bike

Continuing the bicycling theme, I made the perfect pillow for my couch.  Pink.  Bicycles.  Linen.  The fabric was just screaming to come home with me.  Echino is pricey, so I only bought half a yard.  It was enough to cover a 14"x20" pillow.

I attempted the exposed zipper treatment a la Galbraith and Paul pillows.

But it was less than successful. I think I need to interface a wider portion of the edge so that it holds its shape.

I drove all the way down to Colorado Fabrics for a pillow form filled with siliconized polyester fiber because the silicone is supposed to minimize polyfill's tendency to mat down.  It is a lovely, squishy, yet resilient pillow form.  But, I should have realized that the silicone also makes the fibers slick enough to escape the fabric covers.  It beards like crazy.

I got the Echino linen/cotton fabric from Momen, in Torrance, CA before the move.  It only took my about 18 months to sew it up.  ;-)

Drama

I prefer a drama-free day-to-day life.   Ideally, I'd only get my drama vicariously, through art.   But, I do like my dramatic commute.  Pinch me, I work in the office building on top of this mesa.

School starts this week and the traffic during move-in week is unreal.  I commuted by bike* last Friday, before the smoke from the myriad wildfires moved in.

My lonely bike because I work a later schedule than most.

Even the flag had already gone to rest for the evening.  

Pretending I have a handle-bar camera as I exit the driveway.

About to descend.

Stop 20 meters into descent for dramatic view.

It's easy to miss this ped/bike shortcut when whizzing downhill.  It leads through a neighborhood.

To another ped/bike way behind the DOC (Department of Commerce, NIST & NOAA) Laboratories.  Then a couple of blocks through another neighborhood and along the Broadway bike path.  I wave to the atomic clocks as I roll by.

Then roll through the University of Colorado, Boulder to central Boulder and home.

~800 vertical feet descent.  Three national labs.  One research university.  Google's Boulder campus. A dramatic commute.

Does anyone have a helmet camera they can loan me so I can film a video of the commute?

* I bike to a shuttle stop in the morning and get a lift UP to work.  I roll downhill home on my bike.