Extra Craft Night and our regular Craft Night!!

We will be having a supplemental craft group on Friday December 10 from 6- midnight at Heather Larson's house.  Come craft the night away!!  Chris will be there to show us how to crochet adorable beanies and flowers.  Bring your own projects to work on or finish stuff from Super Saturday.  This will be a potluck so we can munch and craft all night.  Please bring something to share!

Our regular craft group is scheduled for Tuesday, December 14 at 6:30 at Libby Tweet's house.  Chris will also be at this meeting in case you missed her beanie tutorial on Friday night!


If you would like to make a beanie or just practice/learn how to crochet then bring a skein of yarn with a crochet hook.  Chris recommends 100% cotton yarn, not super thin but not super fat.  The yarn will say on it what size crochet hook you will need.  Please contact me with any questions and we look forward to seeing you there!

Let's make some purses!

Tuesday night, October 12 at 6:30!
Please email me with any questions at libbytweet@gmail.com

Here is your materials list:

MATERIALS:
• fat quarter for purse outer (or 1/4 fabric)
• fat quarter for lining (or 1.4 fabric)
• small scrap heavyweight interfacing (1.5” squares) - I have some extra if you don't have any scraps
• magnetic snap (find at Joann's in the purse aisle)
• two buttons or some kind of embellishment (optional)
• Interfacing, about 1/4 of a yard, if you want your purse to have more substance (optional)

Here are some pictures!

The Princess and the Pea

Craft group is tonight at 6:30. Please bring your own project or come to learn how to make this cute little Princess and the Pea set.

supply list.
project made entirely from scraps
canvas/muslin for face and arms
fabric scrap for dress
fabric scrap for tights
felt scraps for hair, crown, accessories
polyfil
batting or old blanket (I used old fleece baby blanket) to stuff matresses
I have fabric markers you can borrow to draw the face, acrylic paint works good too
I will be working on a little boy version for Lemon, he couldn't stop sneaking this one away to play with it when I was making it.

Christmas in July”

A super Saturday of Spectacular Crafts

July 10^th, 9am-1pm

APRON

Materials Needed: 2-4 Fat fabric quarters depending on if you want a full or half apron.

COASTERS

Materials Needed: 4 pictures size 4 x 6 per set

Additional Costs: $4 for a set of 4 glass coasters

FELT FOOD SET

Cost: $6 - Picnic set which includes: picnic basket (easier than it looks =)), banana, sandwich (lettuce, tomato slice & meat), carrots and strawberries

$2 – Sugar cookie set which includes: rolled out dough, burlap bag of sugar burlap bag of flour and cut out cookies with sprinkles on top.

HAIRCLIPS

Materials Needed: Ribbons, flowers, jewels, etc. of your choice to decorate the hairclips.  Feel free to bring headbands if you want to decorate those too.

Additional Costs: $1 for 16 plain silver hairclips.

I SPY BAG
Materials Needed: one fat quarter

Cost: Around $5

LIVING CHRIST PICTURE

Materials Needed: 11 x 14 picture frame with a matt for an 8 x 10 photo.

Additional Costs: $4.50 for a packet of pictures of Christ.

NURSING COVER

Materials Needed: 1 yard of cotton fabric, 16” of boning (in fabric casing), 2 D-rings 1.25”-1.5”

PROCLAMATION ON THE FAMILY PICTURE

Materials Needed: 11 x 14 picture frame with a matt for an 8 x 10 photo & 14-20 pictures.

THANK YOU NOTES

Cost: FREE! Set of 10 cards.

TOWELS WITH HOODS

Materials Needed: You will need two beach towels to complete one hooded towel but three towels will make two hooded towels, or you can buy a good size bath towel and hand towel if you don’t want the beach towel look.  FYI: we are going to cut a hole in the middle and use half of another towel so simple patterns or solid colors are recommended. 

Craft Group Knits the Night Away

April Craft Nights

Tuesday April 13 @ 6:30

Tuesday April 27 @ 6:30

 

The first night we will be learning how to do a basic knit stitch and 

we will be using those skills to make a scarf.  

one skein of yarn and some knitting needles, the bigger the needles 

the faster the knitting and the bigger the holes in your scarf.

The second night we will continue the knitting skills by learning how to knit a flower.

Please email me with any questions.

All Things Baby Shower

Tuesday, March 9th @ 6:30

The first three projects can all be made out of fat quarters which is fantastic if you're like me and absolutely detest waiting in the cut line at Joann's.


List of materials:

Baby dress : courtesy of Made by Rae blog
http://madebyrae.blogspot.com/2008/04/free-itty-bitty-baby-dress-pattern.html
She also has a toddler size pattern if you are interested in a bigger size.  see the blog post for materials

1/2 yard fabric  (two fat quarters will work for this)
1/2 yard of fabric for lining (two fat quarters will work for this too)
coordinating piping and bias tape
thread

note: on my dress I did not use piping mostly because I forgot to buy it, I think the piping looks much better and is easier than what I did.  The trade off is that if you buy a matching bias tape you will not be able to use a patterned fabric on the bottom as I did.  Either way I can show you how to do it.


Baby ballerina shoe

1/4 yard outer fabric
1/4 yard of linning fabric
ribbon or elastic (optional)
small piece of light colored felt
thread
embellishments










                                                                             

 Baby pocket bib

Outer Fabric FAT ¼ yard
Back Fabric FAT ¼ yard
Ripper Snaps or Velcro
4” circle of fabric & tiny button

Nursing Cover

1 yd cotton fabric
16” boning (in fabric casing)
2 D-rings (1.25”-1.5”)

All Things Felt!

January Get-Togethers

January 12th @ 6:30 All things felt!

January 26th @ 6:30 DIY and finish felt projects.  Bring whatever you want to work on.

Both meetings will be at the Tweet house.

See below for materials and details.

Come and learn some new stitches and techniques to making your own felt crafts.  The materials and projects are simple but be careful, felt crafting can be addicting!

Items I will be teaching are: play food (donuts, strawberries, dessert cake, crackers,  bow tie pasta)

Tiara or crown (for little princes too!)

Wand

Little Owl  stuffie

Pincushions

Materials for all projects:

Needle

 Matching thread

Matching or complimentary embroidery floss

Polyfil

Felt, colors will be determined by what you want to make and your own personal taste.  The crown is great for little princes too, just choose some nice boy colors.

Specific materials in addition to the ones listed above:

Wand: wooden dowel ¼” thickness, button, ribbon

Tiara/Crown:  scrap of matching fabric for the elastic band in the back, ¾” elastic 6” long,  you will need two pieces of felt at least 15” inches long for this project, so you may have to get it off the bolts.

Note: for many of these projects I used a wool felt blend which is a little bit more expensive but can be found on the bolts at JoAnn’s.  I like how it looks and feels a little better  than the acrylic but either will work perfectly.  Felt is such an easy thing to work with and can really make some wonderful things!!