A Learning Curve!

Well, our "All Day" was going to be lead by Penny Mackenzie, but as we know, she has been unwell - Get Well Soon Penny!

So we did it ourselves and started with a little bit of this...

looks harmless

 and some of this...

is this how we do it?

 And finished with quite a few of these!!

a lovely selection of fabrics

 We purchased some sew in purse frames from here and uses a tutorial found on this blog

its a nice fat bottomed purse, ready for all that change.

Fabrics all tacked to the frames, and ready for sewing neatly in place.

love those spots!

 Michelle had made a bag at the weekend so wanted a purse to match

 We did have a choice of little items to be made.

There was a lined drawstring gift bag from this blog

ready for the cords

would be good with an egg inside!

 Ena made a bag, and has been experimenting making fabric flowers too

petals ready for joining

just threading the cords

And there was also a handy little wallet that we found on this blog which we thought would sell well on our sales table at the Exhibition

tea and company

You know how fussy those tea drinkers can be!  It is just the right size for packets of sewing needles too.


There was continuing work on Linus quilts

adding some appliqué

just squaring up

sewing down the binding

And Jo, bless her, was teaching a certain someone how to crochet. I don't think she realized what she had taken on, Thank you Jo!!

I have shamelessly cropped this to miss the funny face being pulled!

So all in all, not a bad days production!

a bevy of goodies

Please remember ladies that next week we need the Challenges returned to group for all to see, and we will arrange for the Joan to collect the Linus quilts after the Easter break, so if you could get those finished off too. Linus labels are at group if you could sew one of those on too. ( it will save Joan having to sew them on) 

We will have to have a count up but it looks like we will have a good batch again this year.