10 May 2011
My first completed fetal demise pouch. The quilting guild to which I belong, the Kansas City Modern Quilt Guild (KCMQG), decided to do these as a charity/service project. We're making them for local hospitals. You can read more about the project on the guild president's blog (tallgrassprairiestudio.blogspot.com/2011/03/sewing-for-ca...).
They had kits for us to pick up at the April meeting. I took two; as a fairly new sewer, I didn't want to get in over my head. They turned out to be reasonably easy (though I ended up doing mine as a mirror image of the one in the instruction packet and had a heated "discussion" with my machine regarding whether it was going to correctly sew a zigzag stitch). I have not mastered sewing a tiny little square on the ribbon attachment yet; I sewed this one on by hand after a failed first attempt. I will probably sew that part on the next kit by hand, too.
Anna Maria Horner and Freespirit generously donated the fabric for this project.
10 May 2011
My first completed fetal demise pouch. The quilting guild to which I belong, the Kansas City Modern Quilt Guild (KCMQG), decided to do these as a charity/service project. We're making them for local hospitals. You can read more about the project on the guild president's blog (tallgrassprairiestudio.blogspot.com/2011/03/sewing-for-ca...).
They had kits for us to pick up at the April meeting. I took two; as a fairly new sewer, I didn't want to get in over my head. They turned out to be reasonably easy (though I ended up doing mine as a mirror image of the one in the instruction packet and had a heated "discussion" with my machine regarding whether it was going to correctly sew a zigzag stitch). I have not mastered sewing a tiny little square on the ribbon attachment yet; I sewed this one on by hand after a failed first attempt. I will probably sew that part on the next kit by hand, too.
Anna Maria Horner and Freespirit generously donated the fabric for this project.