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| Kay sewed pretty much constantly, I measured cut, pinned and put her to work! |
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| Some of our completed projects |
We just had the most incredible adventure! This weekend we spent two whole days sewing for two of the 7 in 7 days houses in Joplin for the Extreme Home Makeover program. I have a friend who got selected to be in charge of the sewing for those two houses, so I volunteered Kay, Debbie Potter and myself to help her with the sewing of duvet covers, drapes, curtains, pillows, etc. It was so much fun. We sewed on very expensive designer fabric from China, Belgium, and who knows where else. It was pretty scary to cut into it. The designers from each house told our leader Pamela what they wanted, showed her a picture of what they wanted, gave a few dimensions, and handed her the fabric and told her when they needed to be done. No patterns, no real directions, no thread or other supplies. What a challenge! There were approximately 20 other wonderful women helping with this huge project. We even reconnected with someone we were in 4-H with years ago who competed against us and her mother. We sewed all day Friday and Saturday. We made a king size quilted silk ivory duvet cover, a taffeta eggplant queen size duvet cover, matching pillow shams, lots of pillows of every kind of material you can imagine. We made 16 curtain panels out of heavy gold upholstery fabric ( reminded us of the 70's) for the bohemian style home. We made 12 panels of embroidered fabric ( see below)
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| Embroidered fabric for house 6, picture doesn't due the rich colors of this fabric justice. It was a tealish taffeta type designer fabric, wasn't really easy to sew. |
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| Gold drapes with black ribbon trim for house 7 |
12 panels of a flax burlap type fabric and 8 square cushions. We were exhausted! But our adventure wasn't over. As much fun as this was, the best was yet to come. On Tuesday night, we got to go with Pamela and her husband to install all of these wonderful things in the actual houses! Picture me jumping and down with joy!!!! Woopeeee!!!! NOt only that but after seeing a picture of Kay's We love Joplin quilt, the designers want to put it in house #1, the fireman's new house. They felt it really fit with the decor. Yeahhhhhh! That means we get to deliver it ourselves!!!! Stayed tuned for our next post to hear the rest of our wonderful, stupendous, once in a lifetime adventure!!!
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| A few of the thread spools we emptied over the weekend. Most of the thread came from the stashes of the seamstresses involved with our sewing adventure. |
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