The Sewing Mom

I am under a bit of pressure to finish my current project and so, while I am taking pictures as I go, I don’t yet have time to download them. I’ll try to get all of the pictures posted in the next few days.

I am the team manager for a 6th grade Destination Imagination team and we are headed to our first tournament this coming Saturday. I got it in my head to embroider a t-shirt for each of the 6 girls with their team name and individual name, as well as some graphics that I found that matched their theme. I am very excited about the project, but I haven’t used the embroidery tool on my machine in almost a year and so I am having to remember how to do things.

I did re-take the free embroidery class last week offered by the machine manufacturer and am taking the software class later this week (which I’ve never taken). I have to use the software to download the graphics and lettering onto a special card that gets inserted into my sewing machine. I also use the software for designing the lettering and anything else I want to do.

I have used the software in the past, but it’s been a long time and I feel it’s a bit quirky at times.

So, I have 6 shirts to get done. I put graphics on two of them yesterday and plan to get the graphics on the other 4 today. I still have to design the lettering, but once it’s done and downloaded, it shouldn’t take too long to get it onto the shirts. I’m doing the fronts first and if I don’t get to the backs, so be it.

Like I said, I’ll post pictures as soon as I have time to download them! Wish me luck in getting this project finished by Friday afternoon! (I might be starting my new job today, if so, that will take a big bite out of my available time.)

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Tags: craft club, embroidery, embroidery software, sewing

Oh my goodness, I feel like I’ve been so busy sewing over the last few days that I’m having trouble deciding what to post for the The Blogger Craft Club post this week. I posted on Friday about the quilt block I’m making, so today, I think I’ll show the beginnings of my second jelly bag. This picture is of the front and back, which are identical, and created from sewing jelly roll strips together.

Last night I sewed the back to the front and created the bottom. I don’t have a picture yet, so will post that next week. By then, who knows, maybe it will be done!

Tags: craft club, jelly bag, sewing