My final blog post of 2017 is about two of my favorite subjects – grandchildren and sewing!
If you’ve been following my blog for a while, you know that I enjoy teaching young people to sew and quilt.
You may remember a post I did a few months ago about Hanna’s landscape quilt (click here to read that post). Well now I’d like to share her long distance adventure with fusing.
I love Facetime and being able to “talk” to the kids via video. A while ago, Hanna said she wanted to make a pillow with a “critter” of some sort on it. Since she doesn’t have a sewing machine, I thought she might enjoy fusing. So I sent her a bunch of fabric and a length of Heat ‘n Bond™ paper backed fusible web. She thanked me when it arrived and then didn’t mention it again. A little while later she “called” to say she wanted to start. I’d made her a video on how to use the fusible and texted it to her, but she wanted me to talk her through it via FaceTime. I watched her set up the ironing board, we talked about iron safety, and she gathered the supplies.
She had decided she wanted to put Mickey Mouse™ on a piece of fabric and make it into a pillow. She traced her design onto the fusible web, ironed it to her fabric, cut it out, and fused it to the muslin background. She had a package of pre-cut/fused letters with which she added her name. Voilá – the pillow top was done as we spoke.
The next day I received the above pictures from her dad with the message “I think she gets this from you”; and 4 smiley faces!
The apple doesn’t fall too far from the tree. I’m pretty sure this girl needs a sewing machine!
On Hanna and Willy’s most recent visit she thought it would be fun to make pillow cases for daddy and her other grandparents for Christmas. Willy helped her pick out the perfect flannels for each of them, then she began to sew.
And she completed all three!
Afterwards we went to see Star Wars with Uncle Brad and Aunt Betsy (grandpa was home with the little ones 🙂 )
Happy New Year from all of us to all of you!
Rose Duchniak says
What a beautiful family.
Love the pillow and pillow cases. She surely takes after you.
Happy New Year?
Laurie says
Enjoyed your stories on the grandchildren’s visit. They do have a talented grandma who is a wonderful teacher. Thanks for sharing
I also loved seeing Star Wars too! Especially knowing Carrie Fisher passed away in real life after completing her part in the film. I’ll always remember episode VIII as the The Last Princess Leia instead of Last Jedi. Keep smiling!! ?