Happy Labor Day to those in the US!
I keep starting and stopping creating this post so let me just hurry up and post a question already! I'm trying to get back to sewing new fleece blankets for my kids. DS LOVES raccoons and foxes and I spotted some fleece with raccoons the other day so of course 2 yards had to come home with me. Plus a solid green (his favorite color) for the back and green satin binding. DD's took much more work to pick out! Partially because she was there and had to look at every single bolt of fabric they had. She chose mermaids with a raspberry pink background and purple satin binding.
Can you sew?
I can do enough to do projects like this. What I don't know I look up on YouTube. My Gram taught me to make little doll pillows and things on her very old sewing machine. Then I took some lessons at a local fabric store when I was around 9-10. So I learned to sew from a pattern there but I haven't done one since.
Mostly I do things like curtains or hemming pants occasionally. I learned how to quilt on YouTube to make DD a doll quilt for a wood bed DH built her for Christmas a few years ago. I did a little mattress and pillows with pillow cases too.
I picked up a small piece of My Little Pony fabric while we were there so I can teach DD how to make a pillow. I think shes the age I was when my Gram started teaching me. The hardest part will be that she has to stand up at the machine because we have a pub height table. I knew I shouldn't have gotten rid of my old drafting desk.
I keep starting and stopping creating this post so let me just hurry up and post a question already! I'm trying to get back to sewing new fleece blankets for my kids. DS LOVES raccoons and foxes and I spotted some fleece with raccoons the other day so of course 2 yards had to come home with me. Plus a solid green (his favorite color) for the back and green satin binding. DD's took much more work to pick out! Partially because she was there and had to look at every single bolt of fabric they had. She chose mermaids with a raspberry pink background and purple satin binding.
Can you sew?
I can do enough to do projects like this. What I don't know I look up on YouTube. My Gram taught me to make little doll pillows and things on her very old sewing machine. Then I took some lessons at a local fabric store when I was around 9-10. So I learned to sew from a pattern there but I haven't done one since.
Mostly I do things like curtains or hemming pants occasionally. I learned how to quilt on YouTube to make DD a doll quilt for a wood bed DH built her for Christmas a few years ago. I did a little mattress and pillows with pillow cases too.
I picked up a small piece of My Little Pony fabric while we were there so I can teach DD how to make a pillow. I think shes the age I was when my Gram started teaching me. The hardest part will be that she has to stand up at the machine because we have a pub height table. I knew I shouldn't have gotten rid of my old drafting desk.