Summer Sewing

Cal is working on cleaning out the sewing room (aka Matts room), the little room across the hall from Cal and Sue's bedroom. It's filled with sewing supplies, craft supplies, extra furniture, and hundreds of photo albums, old pictures in frames, and loose photographs. Wendy has been helping him do that when she comes to visit on Fridays. They asked if I wanted all of Sue's extra fabric, which yes! I do - so David and I made a trip to get the fabric. We knew there was a lot but we were surprised when the fabric filled the entire back of the van to the brim (with the back seats folded down). We got the fabric home and I went through every piece of it- throwing about half of it away and keeping only the things I felt I would be able to use in the future. It was a huge project and it made me feel so connected to Sue and filled with such love for her as I went through unfinished projects, beautiful fabric, and all of her sewing supplies. 

I was excited for all of the fabric in part, because this summer I decided to host a "Quilt Camp" for my summer sewing classes. I did a couple of different sessions where I taught the kids the basic skills needed to make a block quilt. They made their own "mini quilt" and then they teamed up with a group to make a larger quilt to donate to "Wrap the World with Quilts" - a charitable organization that we have worked with in the past. I loved using Sue's fabric to piece together these quilts and enjoyed teaching these classes. 

I chose to do "Quilt Camp" this year for sewing classes because in the fall I am planning to teach a 6 week Quilt Service class for Lydia's Middle School Coop. Doing a couple of trial runs in my neighborhood with 6 people in each class helped me to prep for teaching 16 middle schoolers at the same time. 







I really enjoy teaching sewing and am glad that I was able to do a couple of sewing sessions this summer. 

Info on Wrap the World with Quilts: https://hellocottons.com/