Kids Camp Final Week

Last week marked the end of Kid's Summer Sewing Camp at Eddie's Quilting Bee.  While I am happy to get back to creating , I will miss the helping the kids find their own creative outlet.

This week brought a great monster pattern (McCall 5826) that allowed students to "build" their own monster.  It was great for every ability!  In addition we had alphabet letter pillows and uniquely designed stuffed animals!  I helped one student create a cat and dog to add to her menagerie of elephant and turtle.

The flip and stitch quilting technique also was redesigned to include many more fruits beside the basic watermelon from allpeoplequilt.com watermelon table runner .  These included apple, orange and even mango!

As I am putting away and reorganizing, I am planning to complete a few projects and then dive back into Sew Magical Creations including learning quilting, creating new patterns and focusing on a book proposal.

More from Summer Camp

Here are a couple of highlights from Sewing Camp this week.

First, I love the creative push that we get from students.  Last week I modified a watermelon table-runner into a purse when Ruth requested it and now two other people have made one! (I will post the tutorial for the purse in the future but here is the link for the table runner Watermelon Table Runner).

This week Maddie took her skill in making the flip and stitch watermelon table runner and created a turtle!

That was fun!  We are also creating a toddler "tutu" skirt and doing other pattern modifications!

It can get a bit silly when young sewers cannot quite figure out why a step is needed or what the end result will be.  Take for example Nasrine and Shriya ....Shriya is creating a very full gathered skirt, but before the elastic both she and her friend Nasrine can fit into it! (They are wearing vests they made as well)

And finally..for now...we have advanced students doing amazing things that include designer doll cloths and the raincoat shown below.

Keep your eyes peeled for more!

More on Kid's Sewing Camp

It continues to be quite an experience working with kids on their sewing projects.  Last week was clothing production as you can see by the photos.  I am improving in my alteration of pattern skills and my helper Amy has been helping with the quilting - so new skills for both of us!

The other highlight was the Harry Potter themed stuffed elephant.  One student REALLY wanted to have the houses represented so I brought in a light box and fabric pens.  she did all the outlining and coloring and then we fused them to their blanket (pattern at Hoffman fabrics but be warned many steps are missing).