After School Classes March 2014

Greta and her Simplicity blouse

     The children are on spring break this week and about half of them went out of town.  Because of that I cancelled classes for the week.  I did schedule a mini-camp to make personalized pillowcases but no one signed up for it.

Lindsey and her peasant nightgown

     In Monday's class Ellen is continuing work on a Simplicity pattern dress.  She has the bodice finished and is now seaming the skirt pieces.  The fabric she chose for the skirt is a double layer knit. She has to do a lot of pinning to keep the layers from shifting.  Cara meanwhile is making good progress on her Butterick pattern tote.

Natalie and her nightshirt

  In Tuesday's class Kate is working on a pair of denim shorts as is her sister Christine.  They should finish them next week.  Nonie is working on the square neck blouse in a eye popping black and white chevron print.  Greta finished her Simplicity pattern blouse the end of February and is now working on the blouse from the Kids Can Sew book.  She has chosen to shorten it and make it from a sheer fabric to wear over the tank top she made earlier.  She is learning how to do French seams to create a nicely finished blouse.

Julia with her cross country sweatpants

     In Wednesday's class Lindsey finished her peasant nightgown and is working on a pair of shorts.  Natalie finished her nightshirt and is working on a back slit denim skirt.  Julia finished her sweatpants.  She had fun making the buttonholes for the twill tape.  She opted to not hem the pants as that is the current style.  Nick worked on a quilt for a while but is now making a coat for his little dog. It is lined with fleece and has rip stop nylon for the outer part.

Najiyah and her pajama pants

   

     Najiyah finished her plaid pajama pants.  She did a great job matching the plaid.  She is now working on a striped nightshirt.  Bella is working on the round neck blouse made from a pretty batik fabric.  Aviva finished her flannel nightshirt.  She had mistakenly cut up part of the front when cutting out the pattern.  We turned it into a design opportunity.  We took a long piece of the fabric, turned in the ends and sewed it over the cut front.  She then added a bow from the strip of fabric.  It turned out really cute.  Maddie is working on a peasant nightgown.

Aviva and her nightshirt

Detail of the 'design opportunity'