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Weekend fiber fun--Purses and Blankets
Monday, October 10, 2005
Just as I was finishing the Sprout's suprise purse, she called to say that she was coming by for some of her books. ESP?? Perhaps.
She loved it! I wasn't sure on Saturday, but on Sunday when we went shopping, she was carrying it! Yay! I love to see my surprise creations in use. Her friend wants one, too. Maybe I'll hold a workshop.
Saturday afternoon was our ASG neighborhood group meeting. It was our annual charity sit & sew and our project was to make some fleece blankets for Project Linus. We learned a blanket stitch edge finish, and how to square up our fleece. There was a cool fringe edge-finish demonstration, which is the finishing method I chose to do. Of course I didn't finish mine at the meeting, but I suppose it will reinforce what I learned to continue work at home.
For cutting the fringe, I had the opportunity to try one of those plexiglass fringe-cutting templates. It certainly made pretty fringe, but wasn't easy or fun to use. Even when I got all the way across one side, I had to clip a few places with my scissors. There must be a better way to make fringe than to spend $20 on something that doesn't work any better than that!