the bears

I first made the Simiplicity 7552 bear with my son. He was giving a gift to a girlfriend and wanted to know if we could make something for her out of one of his shirts (that was her favorite shirt). It was adorable.





Our Monday night group made bears but all of us used material. Surprisingly it only takes 5/8 of yard of material. It's a nice sized bear.





We will not be meeting next week due to the memorial day holiday. But will meet on the 1st of June. JUNE!!!! June already. We will probably work on UFOs. Seems we all have alot of unfinished projects to catch up on.

FQ bags

FQ bags are so versatile. We had so much fun making pleats and pockets and curves into our bags. I love how fast they are too. If you weren't able to attend the meeting, just get out your fat quarter and start cutting - seriously, I think you can finish one in an hour and the second and third and fourth ones just go faster.

Next week: Sewing Machine Covers!! These are mainly just a dust cover. We will sandwich two pieces of fabric between batting and quilt that piece, then bind the edges and add four ties and it will be ready to throw over your machine.

JOEY

Embellished towels and UFOs

At our last meeting we embellished towels and worked on UFOs (isn't that what the title says?!) Anyways, it was a fun meeting in that we had a little more time to chat. Usually we are so busy sewing that you can't talk so that was nice. I like the UFO idea and I may incorporate it into our meetings once a month. I am working on the schedule for May/June. The next meeting we are making FQs purses. I made one but have a few more FQs to make a couple at the next meeting.