Field Trip

Our needlecrafts club had a field trip day last Saturday.  We first visited Artco, a local crafts store that has an impressive selection of mostly cotton fabrics and sewing notions.  Our second and last stop was at JoAnn's Fabrics.  Our group learned to determine the quality of a fabric, as well as how to select thread and elastic for a pajama bottom sewing project.  Everyone purchased a fitting (pardon the pun) piece of fabric!

At our meeting on Monday I decided to teach a little about crotch depth - yep, crotch depth.  A little awkward to teach, but the pj bottoms need to fit.  Basically, the person being measured sits on a hard chair and another person measures from the waistline, down the side of the hip, to the top of the chair.  Most of the time this measurement is required in order to determine whether the waist of the garment will be too high or too low. And the instruction was immediately applicable because everyone had to make an alteration to the pajama pattern for the crotch depth. 

Our club won't meet next week due to the Thanksgiving holiday, so I'll be busy writing a research paper for my college class and working on some items for an upcoming arts and crafts fair.

I wish you a very Happy Thanksgiving; peace and good times with whomever you will be celebrating with!


Artco

 

Jacob Pinning Pattern

  Kirah & Heather Cutting PUL for Shields