I have set up a sewing area in my mother's living room. Last summer I got Marcy involved with making pillow cases. She spent much of the latter part of 2008 making pillow cases for Christmas presents and she decided that she wanted to make pillow cases for my niece's softball team as an end of the year present. They found the fabric they liked (softballs!) and some matching border fabric and Marcy went to town cutting out pieces (no roller cutter! Yuck!) and getting 16 pillow cases ready for assembly... Just in time for me to sew them! (Marcy was planning to sew them herself but I conveniently came along early!)Great system, and as my mother watched over the whole process, "What are you making? Why are you making those? How many are you making? Can I help? (We gave her manicure scissors and asked her to cut off thread tails) Marcy ironed and I flag sewed. Within two hours we had our 16 pillow cases made!
Next step. Marcy wanted the pillow cases embroidered with the softball team's names and numbers and last night we found a man at a street fair that would do it for us very cheaply. Marcy tested him out by getting her own name embroidered on one pillow case (she's #1!) and we will take all the rest of the pillow cases to him later this week.
Mom's still saying "What are those? Who made them? How many did you make? Oh, they're so beautiful!" Makes us feel proud!
On to the next project!
On to the next project!
7 comments:
those are indeed beautiful! glad to hear you are enjoying yourself so much and keep on stitching!!! ;D
Tanya, if you are going to still be there towards the end of July, let me know if you would like to meet at the Long Beach show on Saturday, let me know at Oregonquilt.blogspot.com
Very nice!!!!! Glad you're getting to sew some, looks like a production line, lol.
Great pillowcases - what a lovely gift for the team - and so nice that your mum could be involved in the process too - glad to hear she's picking up a little
Great fabric, very 'fit for the purpose' :-) Must have used quite a bit of it for 16 pillow cases.
What a nice thing the two of you are doing. It keeps you busy and your helping your SIL. Sounds like there was a lot of laughter and the memories you are building. Rae Ann
Isn't it great to sit and sew when you're away from home and things don't feel really normal? It's so good to 'touch fabric', reduces stress. I love the added embroidery on the pillow cases.
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