draggin'!

Today was Day 1 of Summer 2010 Sewing Camp.

My sewing partner, Tori (who also hosts the camps at her home), and I planned two camps this week, one in the morning and one in the afternoon, to see how well that would work. Let me just say that my arse is DRAGGIN'!!!!

All of the kids, though, are soooo extremely sweet. They are very fast learners and I know will have a fun, successful camp in which they learn skills to last a lifetime. Amazing to watch them, truly, it was. The beginner students made a felt book with four "pages". One showed all the different stitches/stitch lengths/stitch widths they learned, one showed their new skill of pivoting, another showed that they can now sew curves. And, for their final page they learned how to gather a strip of fabric and sewed on a ruffle. After learning all the basics, they finished today by making a pillowcase.

Now, if I could just put my hands on some Calgon bath salts and steal away to soak in a tub full of warm water. I KNOW I am going to sleep well tonight.

On tap for tomorrow: More fun, more stuff!

click the link

I have no idea how to make the video appear here, but you need to see this easy-peasey project. Also, I don't know about you, but I am going to put these girls on my favorite list!

Hooded Towel Project

starting to pick back up

Working on a quilt between meals and kid errands.

Also, working on a big graduation order for a friend of mine whose daughter is graduating this year. Brilliant: she is having laundry bags monogrammed!
I remember when our kids were little. My oldest was not too much smaller than her youngest, which of course means that it will be no time at all before my oldest is graduating. EEEEEK!

Coming soon: Summer Sewing Camps for kids and we are even offering two All-In-One-Day camps for the moms!

a great resource for the beginning seamstress

I think Tori and I will be using this book as a textbook for our Mom's Sewing classes. Chic & Simple Sewing by Christine Haynes. It has such great, modern, super-easy, and (even modest) patterns that even the beginning seamstress will feel like a pro and look like a million bucks! A friend of mine, who is just learning to sew, received it as a gift and wanted me to take a look at it. FAB!

Now, to find some quality apparel fabric.

what a silly waste

Does anyone else think 5/8th seam allowances are excessive? Does it make you feel a little crazy, especially when the pattern then tells you to clip the seam to 1/4th inch?!

more burp cloths

Second set of burp cloths today.

The friend who ordered these burp cloths wanted them edged with ribbon. I'm thinking it was a really great idea! What a lucky little baby, if I do say so myself.

burp cloths

This morning's project was embroidering three burp cloths for a friend of mine to give as a gift. I love how they turned out. The bunny is my all-time favorite design to sew out.