2018 Wk 18 - Sewing with Jackie Part 1

A perfect weekend!

Jackie arrived, lots of sewing, Crafty Church, a bit of fabric and wool shopping and mostly decent weather!  What more could I ask for?

Zippy pouches from lined hessian (I'll be finding hessian dust for weeks but they didn't need any stabiliser!

Do your children every actually ask you to make something?  Usually I get "It's lovely mum, but I really don't NEED another quilt" but on this occasion it was "mum, can you and Jackie make a chemo quilt for Claire at work? Any colours, any design (more points there kiddo, well done!) but plenty of blank space so we can write messages for her", so this has been started

We made a box pouch with a vinyl pocket  - finished item will be in the next blog post, but the pain that was making the bias binding is evidenced here - never again!

Tara at Crafty Church brought in her WW1 Heart Pincushion kit.  Explained here, it takes the occupational therapy practiced by injured soldiers in WW1 and has turned it into a commemorative project for the 100th anniversary of the end of the war later this year, asking people to recreate these hearts for an Art installation.  For example:

Some of us will buy one the of the kits for the Untangles Threads project, but we also decided to make named hearts for the 7 soldiers from our village who served in WW1

Lesley brought in a picture of an Amsterdam street she has completed.  It has been framed and I really struggled to get a pic without reflection, but it's worth zooming in to have a closer look.  it is all made of fabric, stitched in place.  She made each house twice - so there is a mirror image house upside-down in the water!  Its absolutely stunning

The next post will follow when Google photos has caught up with the photos I've taken!

Thank you Jackie - I've had a wonderful weekend -I love you xx

Museum Making

Busy day yesterday - after "day job" in the morning I whizzed over to Chertsey museum where we all had a go at (wet) felting and made these fab flowers 

There was also a bit of show and tell: two felted fairies finished from last month

And from the recent evening session, a finished (and fab) t-shirt bowl

and a t-shirt basket

I then stayed at the museum for the evening session: not my class this time, but the other evening teacher who works mostly with paper: We made a vintage style scrap book page, although my plan (we I get proper prints of the photos rather than these photocopies) is to frame this for Mother-in-Law

This little blond cherub is (was? will be?) my husband!!!!

Museum Makes

I forgot to include the Show and Tell projects from Friday's Fun With Fabric at Chertsey Museum: these were the button pictures that were started in October's class and have now been finished:

A flower basket

and two trees

After these and the November button necklaces, my button stash is now looking a little sad :-(

EDIT: I now can't see the post I made with the button necklaces, so here they are again

A Blue Quilt, and a Christmas tree

Today I've been delivering a grant application and some PE kits, and done some work at school, but when I finally got home I NEEDED to sew!

So I've cut strips apart, sewn strips together, cut sewn strips into squares, sewn squares together to make bigger squares, and finally sewn those squares together to make a quilt top, and I feel very please with myself!

















I have also mounted a little Christmas tree project which is for the crafts with fabric course that I am doing at Windsor library next month. Slightly limited in what we can make without sewing machines, but I was quite pleased with the end result of this one, so we'll aim for this idea in the first session and see what people want to do for the next session (hoping that there are 'people'!!!)