The Sewing Mom

I am the team manager (volunteer) for my daughter’s 6th grade Destination Imagination team.  They have been working hard and practicing since last October and their first tournament is 2 days away.  They are currently upstairs working on one of their props, an optical illusion.  I think it will look very cool when they’re done, if they ever get done!  It’s huge and so has taken them much longer than they anticipated.

As a surprise for the team, I’ve been embroidering team t-shirts.  The fronts of the shirts are now done and I’m embroidering their individual names on the backs.  I’m hoping I will have just enough time to make myself and my assistant each one as well.  I think it’s cool to see teams dressed alike at tournaments, it sort of makes them stand out in the crowd.

Of course, they have costumes they’ll be wearing when they actually perform, so the t-shirts won’t be worn then.  They actually did design the t-shirts too, for the most part.  They just don’t know that I’m the one making them.

Anyway, I’ve been working all day today on these, I didn’t even go in to my new job!  The team is here now though, so I am taking a break and blogging instead.  If I turn my sewing machine on, they’ll want to know what I’m up to!

I hope to post pictures tomorrow, so hope you’ll come back to see what I’ve been working on.