BYC SEWING/QUILTING CLUB

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We now have to put the binding, stuffing, and all that good stuff together, it's Queen size.
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I wish we had done it all lol but we've only pieced part of it together. It was donated as partly done, we put some squares together and some of the trim, but not the whole thing. The kids will be finishing it though, and they have made the squares for the shams. We have everything we need to finish it except experience! I am reading the instruction book hoping to figure out the rest of it. We are going to try and have it finished for a craft show we are entering Nov. 5. We are going to sell aprons, bibs, and some smaller lap quilts and want to have it on display so people can see what the kids out here are capable of doing with a little support! One of the girls finished her lap quilt today, we will get pictures of it tomorrow and try and get them posted too, she did a great job. She is using donated embroidery floss to tie it because we don't have the ability to actually quilt it. The hard part on the big one is going to be getting it quilted. I am talking with two quilting clubs locally to see if we can get someone to donate their time to do it if we can supply the thread for it. This group this year is a really serious bunch, the Tuesday crew is only 7 kids but they are the ones doing the big sewing projects and they are a wonderful team. The Wednesday crew is about 27 and is both crochet and sewing and they are moving a little slower but getting there. I found out today a couple of the kids got ribbons at the Fair for their aprons, I just don't know which ones yet!!
 
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I am SOOOO proud of you for the difference that you are making in the lives of the kids at your school!!! You have expanded their lives in many ways! This is an experience that they will remember for a long time!! Particularly if they win a prize!!

I would like to contribute to this project. Please PM me with your address (and your real name!) so that I can send you a check.

What other resources could you use?? Fabric? Yarn? etc??

Another EASY project that I might suggest is: custom pillow cases. I can send you two easy patterns. I made 55 pillow cases (no two alike) for a Summer Camp for foster children (they got to take them home at the end of camp). I made them in both cotton and flannel and had SO MUCH fun!!! If you are interested, I could send you a couple as samples! Allpeoplequilt.com is sponsoring a 1 Million Pillow Case Challenge. They are challenging people (sewers and quilters) to make & donate pillow cases in their local communities to: foster children, cancer patients, homeless shelters, women's shelters, children's hospitals, convalescent hospitals, or ????? You can go to their site to log the pillow cases that you have donated. Maybe your kids can make one pillow case for themselves and one for charity! I also know what I am making my grand-nieces & nephews for christmas and their next birthdays!!! Children are REALLY charmed by having a "special" pillow case!!!

Best regards
Cindy
 
First lap quilt by Isabel, ALL by herself!!! She still has to tie it, I picked up the embroidery thread last night.
She is now working on her Halloween costume making it from her imagination, not a pattern.
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The pillow cases sound like a wonderful idea!! We are making crochet blankets and caps again, and these would be a wonderful addition to our donations! This year we are working most with the Cancer Center in Las Cruces, and the Battered Women's Shelter and the Child Crisis Center in El Paso. We tried to make blankets for a certain charity but they weren't interested in working with the kids, they wanted to know that everything was made by adults and perfect. Sad, but their loss.

#1California Chick :

Writer

I am SOOOO proud of you for the difference that you are making in the lives of the kids at your school!!! You have expanded their lives in many ways! This is an experience that they will remember for a long time!! Particularly if they win a prize!!

I would like to contribute to this project. Please PM me with your address (and your real name!) so that I can send you a check.

What other resources could you use?? Fabric? Yarn? etc??

Another EASY project that I might suggest is: custom pillow cases. I can send you two easy patterns. I made 55 pillow cases (no two alike) for a Summer Camp for foster children (they got to take them home at the end of camp). I made them in both cotton and flannel and had SO MUCH fun!!! If you are interested, I could send you a couple as samples! Allpeoplequilt.com is sponsoring a 1 Million Pillow Case Challenge. They are challenging people (sewers and quilters) to make & donate pillow cases in their local communities to: foster children, cancer patients, homeless shelters, women's shelters, children's hospitals, convalescent hospitals, or ????? You can go to their site to log the pillow cases that you have donated. Maybe your kids can make one pillow case for themselves and one for charity! I also know what I am making my grand-nieces & nephews for christmas and their next birthdays!!! Children are REALLY charmed by having a "special" pillow case!!!

Best regards
Cindy​
 
Love that quilt, Kate! I can't sew a thing! I only quilt because, to me, that is art, not sewing. I don't make clothing or do any crafts, just quilt.

I've been commissioned to make a quilt for a BYCer. The center is a Carpenter's Wheel 24" block and I just designed each border as I added them so neither of us knew how it would look in the end. I am about half way done with the quilting part of it, all by hand, though it was machine pieced.


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