Month: January 2018

Last week was a super busy one here at weSew with 7 classes! The infants class prepared for the cold weather forecasted. They made wonderful teddy bear water bottle covers. One of the dads picked his favourite - well done to Poppy Ley. Sewer of the day for the earlier juniors class went to Evie Parker, pictured with her amazing reversible sequin cushion. The juniors are now on to making fur gilets with luscious fur purchased from Fabric Land. Cutting out the fur and trimming back the seams has been a massive task. Thank you to Mrs Thornton and also to Hayley Enright for their help with this. This is quite a challenging sewing project and has necessitated tiny tacking stitches. Well done to Amber Harvey for sewing perfect tacks.…

This week the Infants made sleep masks and also created a 'pin the tall on the donkey' game so that their masks could double up as blind folds! Well done to Sienna and Holly Poore for winning sewer of the day. In the Juniors class, most people finished their reversible sequin cushions. We made our own cushion pads from pillows. This is a really cost effective method because you can make 3 cushion pads from a £1.50 pillow.

I really enjoyed the first week back to sewing. The infants made door hangers for their bedrooms (the kind that say 'awake' and 'asleep'). Thank you to Katie Enright I(weSew assistant helper) for cutting out all the pieces of felt required. Well done to Amelia Stewart and Mae Morgan for their wonderful sewing and positive attitudes. Both won sewer of the day. In the junior class, the girls started their reversible sequin cushion covers. One of the children was worried they were going to have to hand stitch the sequins on! I actually bought the fabric on the role and cut out a square panel to go on the front of their envelope fold cushion. We had two new girls join us this term and both won sewer of the…