Pleated Beauty Bags

This sewing get-together was so fun! And all of us made a bag to take home. We used the pattern from Bend-The-Rules Sewing by Amy Karol. All of our members are so creative with their appliques, embroidery, fabric choices , interfacing knowledge etc that they chose for this bag. I need to make another one because I thought I would give the one I made to my sister but have decided to keep it because I love how it turned out. All of the ladies loved their bags too. Our next project will be a charging basket. Members need to go to the website and download and print a copy of the pattern and bring it to the next meeting with the fabric requirements precut.

I apologize for the poor photos (I love to sew) and have learned nothing about taking photos. Some of the girls were not at the meeting because they were celebrating a birthday. Can't imagine why they didn't want to celebrate by sewing! Happy Birthday JODI!! We are taking next week off for Spring Break but will see everyone in 2 weeks.

Wallets!

We made wallets. You should come. We meet on every monday. There are about 8 -12 ladies that come and we get alot of sewing done. Next week we will be making the "Pleated Beauty" from Amy Karol's book "Bend the Rules Sewing". Leave me a message if you want to be added to my weekly email to attend the meetings.
Thanks to Dani for demo-ing the wallets, taking pictures and helping some of the other members.
And thanks to all of you who do attend. We are making some great friendships.

JOEY

SAMs Meeting 3/2 - Lunchboxes

In two hours! Yes, in two hours. I told the ladies that they could quilt their main piece and finish their lunchbox and they did. We used the tutorial from Oh Fransson. She is amazing. We are also going to be doing her charging basket at the end of the month.

Checkbook Covers

Four checkbook covers can be made out of four fat quarters or just use scraps. They take about 10 minutes to make each one. There are elastic pieces to hold a pen and look great in a mix/match of fabrics. I'm really hoping that I have some left at Christmas to give as stocking stuffers. I did decide to add an extra flap to hold your license/debit card. (This was not shown to the SAMs members :( - sorry ladies it was an afterthought) I had seen this checkbook cover idea on TV but made the cutting directions and Instructions up on my own. My apologies ladies, I realize my instructions were very sketchy. You all are so great to have been able to complete one cover with those instructions.

So next week, we will be making a lunchbox. Ya, there is actually a online tutorial - I won't be having to make it up.

1st Meeting

Our first meeting was officially held on February 16. There were 7 ladies in attendance and we made aprons. The aprons were made from 8 fat quarters (4 for each side). These are some of the finished aprons. Our next meeting was actually held tonight in which we made checkbook covers. You can get four checkbook covers out of 4 fat quarters OR just use scraps. We had 8 ladies tonight.