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I hadn't even noticed, I was so engrossed in sewing, that the bobbin had stopped filling up. I dismantled the unit and found a surprise at the bottom. The rubber band on the bobbin winder had torn. Lesson learned things happen. These small inexpensive items can ground your flight. I will purchase a few and keep them in the tool box.

That pile of UFO's. In one of the groups that I am in on facebook we were asked if we have a pile of UFO's Unfinished Objects :) That got me thinking and I took a tour around my studio to see what my current situation is. I try very hard to focus as I really don't like living with piles of fabric out in the open. My home studio is an open space in the house so I try to keep things organized. Projects in boxes, not huge over flowing piles.

and created an orange sunset with fabric scraps

After working with striking sunset colors for 3 weeks I need a change of pace. Soft tranquil colors.

Each one shares from their abundance or their skills. I have skills :) and upcycled fabrics. So yesterday I decided to recreate and turn some sheets into 2 practical tote bags. Most times I use scraps from the students fabric box and can create crumb fabrics. This time I remembered that I had a box of long thin summer colored fabric strips. So I decided to create striped colorful patchwork fabric, to create a bag for sharing

2 more classes to go till summer vacation and they have so many projects that they still want to finish sewing. This week they worked on finishing their projects, some worked on their aprons, some chose summery bright fabrics

Its that time, the busy, busy end of school year period. Teachers trying to complete the curriculums, with children who already have one foot and sometimes more into the summer vacation.

I have been having what I call Artist's block. You know like Writer's block. I see something in my mind's eye and I just don't manage to translate it into fabric.

I have been working on more wave technique tutorials. I have 2 ready and there are 2 more in my arsenal. The next will be called The Wave Circle of Eternity. My first version will be all oranges. I was sorting fabrics this morning and the sun was shining outside and birds were chirping, quite loudly in fact. I found some orange summer fabrics

Every time I work on a project and as it progresses I have smaller and smaller remnants. Each stage in the project creates remnants of a certain size which then call for the next project and even more smaller remnants for the next until all I have left are really tiny scraps which I will have to find a technique for. These are not the tiniest pieces yet and the tie dyed fabrics are so beautiful that I have to find a use for all of the pieces so I will create some t shirt

I had collected quite a large amount of t shirt strips from all the shirts that I had resized and have been itching to create with them.

Today we completed a spring sewing camp. Children come to learn to sew by hand and by machine and to make fun products to take home and learn new skills. After a week of sewing they will have acquired new skills and independence and they will never look back the same way.

I love my Wednesday class. I teach sewing to children and from 16:00 onwards there is a creative hum in the air. They are busy as bees. Today each one worked on a different project. Some of them come early but I don't start teaching until 16:00. They know that if they come early they have to be productive. I set them to sorting and cutting fabrics for their projects.

Its the #IGQuiltFest2023 day 10 #upcycling Recreate. reduce, reuse, recycle, rework, rewear. I do keep all the scraps and even the threads when creating projects and upcycle and reuse them to recreate even more projects.

The prompt for day 4 in the instagram sharing called IGQuiltFest2023 is #creativehands so I am going to share photos of my students creating. I love seeing their different color choices and they have artistic license to decorate their products with whatever colors they like.

The prompt for the 5th day is why do I quilt? There are so many way that I can answer that. I have a life long love of fabrics from the first time at age 5 that I walked into my grandfather's sewing room and saw the black treadle machine and watched him sew and saw the pile of fabrics sitting on the chair next to him. My first trip also at age 5 to the Indian market in Pretoria, the sari fabrics, the beads, the colors all spoke to me.

Yesterday they finished their large quilted patchwork pouch for all of their sewing supplies. The purpose of this lesson is to teach them the first zipper technique in a list of 5 different zipper techniques that I teach in the sewing classes. They also get to practice lots of sewing while quilting the outside fabrics of the pouch.

hey chose pinks, bold and light fabrics, for the body of the pouch and a white zipper each.

He likes the texture and design of the wave landscape patchwork technique and is into marine time things, and his mother likes practical arty gifts so he decided to make a zippered pouch for her.

ave a class today, they finished their magic square pillows and the next project is the zippered pouch. One of the fun things is choosing the fabrics for the pouch. The students need to choose about 40 strips of fabic, they are going to sew a large quilted zippered pouch for all of their sewing tools for the lesson. They are given a container with all of the remnants created from other projects during the week. So every week there are new strips and colors that were not