2nd Saturday Cancelled!

 Due to parking lot conditions at Central Lutheran Church, 2nd Saturday Sew is cancelled!

Make a Sweatshirt Jacket!

 November Program Information "Sweating With the Oldies"

Next, November 16th is our next program day and Kate Beebe will be leading an interactive program again. We used ties in a “Tie One On” theme, we just had a program about “Ending It all” and this time it will be about “Sweating by the Oldies” (that’s us, for the most part). This time we’ll be making sweatshirt jackets. Since we had no wearables in this past show, we thought we’d provide a jumping off point for folks to create something for next year. We’ll be talking about how to dissemble a sweatshirt, what you can do with the off-cuts (if you want to), and how to quilt them up. We’ll have demos of some of the stitching and samples to show, but time will probably not allow for everyone to stitch on their jacket.

Participant Supply List

• Sewing machine and associated supplies!

• Sweatshirt of any style at least two sizes bigger than normally worn. This allows for shrinkage due to cutting and stitching. Any sweatshirt will do, so this might be the chance to make something for a child (grand or not), or even for a doll. The sweatshirt doesn’t have to be new but should still be a couple of sizes larger than normally worn. PLEASE pre-wash your sweatshirt to save possible misery later!

• Good scissors that will cut through sweat-shirt material and seams.

• Notepaper and pen for ideas/notes.

• Optional – orphan blocks or special fabrics you want to use so we can give ideas on how you might use them.

As usual, for show and tell, bring along any sweatshirt jackets you have, whether you made them or not, so folks can see options for styling, and be ready to talk about lessons you may have learned when making your jacket…if any.

If you want follow-up assistance on completing your jacket, come on any 4th Thursday or 2nd Saturday. You can bring machines then, if you want, or just come for discussion and guidance.

Kate Beebe