November Sewing Class Part 2

For our second class in the session we made Reversible Tote Bags, using the wonderful tutorial from MADE. I do love these bags, they are simple to construct and a great size. The ladies tonight were awesome as usual, we stayed a little later so they could finish their bags before they left. The best thing about this pattern is that you can change it up in so many ways, you can have multiple fabrics or you can add the pieces together to have one larger same colored bag. The possibilities are endless and they make great gifts for teachers, just add this TOTEally awesome printable from Just Another Day in Paradise.

I just love the proud look on these faces when they finish a project that actually comes out great! I think that is one of the keys to learning to sew, pick projects that aren't so complicated that you can get a wonderful end project and have pride in that item. I love the feeling when people ask where I bought something and I can tell them that I made it!

October Sewing Class Part 2

I taught my second night of Sewing Class at Make and Take Craft Weekend and the ladies were rock stars! We first finished the reversible tote bags they had started last week and then we rocked out a half apron. Besides a little trouble with one of their machines, they were awesome! So fun to watch people figure out how to sew and those bits of material come together to create something fun and useful.

Samantha modeling her apron!

Finished reversible tote bag.

Lynn was showing her modeling talent with her sewing talent!

Cute colorful apron!

This was my example apron I made to show them. 

The reversible tote was taken from MADE, I made a bunch of these for teachers gifts at the end of the school year last year and I love seeing the teachers carry their things in them! The apron is the Kitschy Kitchen Apron from the book One-Yard Wonders. The material is stuff I have had in my stash for a long time with the intentions of doing a skirt for my oldest daughter but never got around to it.