What a great day!

Wow Girls!!! We did some sewing today - no glitches.

We were able to get most of the skirt completed today. We also started talking about seam finishes, by doing a pinked seam finish. If you aren't satisfied with the strip that you did in class, you can try again. All of your strips and sample work will go into your notebook and you want your very best work to be displayed.

As promised, here is the low-down on what to do before class next week:

Once your skirt has been clipped and trimmed, turn it right side out, use a point turner to make nice points on the four corners of the skirt. If they don't turn nicely, you may need to clip a bit more of the seam away. Don't get in a hurry here, if you pivoted nicely, trimmed close enough, you should have nice points when the skirt is turned. This isn't an area of construction to brush off as unimportant.

It will be easier to press the edges of the skirt if you use a spray bottle to dampen the skirt. The fabric from the other side shouldn't be visible - the edges should be neatly turned and ironed.

Bring the skirt back next week to have the open edge sewn. Even though the instructions say to sew that with machine top stitching, we will sew it by hand. We are using our sewing projects to learn new techniques and I want to do some hand sewing.

After that we will top stitch the entire skirt, not just the upper edge, as the instructions state.

If I get a chance, I will add a couple new vocab words to the list. If not, I will add several next week.

One of these days I will do a "pop quiz" on the vocab words, so make sure you know what theses words mean.

I am so pleased with how you are all doing - see you Tuesday!