STUDENT SHOWCASE ~ October - November 2013

We had fun these last few months making some beautiful projects.   

This is my Zippy Pouch that I teach.  My students can easily customize the size to their liking.

One of my adult students made this for her niece attending Duke University - isn't it cool?  You could obvs do this with other college prints and send them to your favorite college students.  She also made a tote bag to match.

It is fully lined (sorry no picture of that - but it is solid blue).  But I really wanted to show off her BE-YOO-TIFUL zipper ends!  These are very hard to do to make them look nice and I have finally mastered the technique to teach it!  She nailed it!  And there are even little "D"s, on purpose, at each zipper end.  Awesome or what?  And the bottom boxed corners are perfect as well!  Great job!!

This little student was making her first Basic Skirt.  She chose this cute print just in time for Halloween.  Elastic waistband casing.  She could hem it right here and be done.  Simple.  Basic. Easy.

Here she is proud to show it to her mother.

BUT she needed to learn gathers and what better way than as a ruffle at the bottom of the skirt?

What an accomplishment!  Great job, sweetie!  It is so exciting to complete a project and have skills for future projects!

Now, these two sweet girls are (were - one of them had to move away) in a group sewing class together.  They are best friends.  So when we started our apron project, they wanted to make something to remember their friendship.  Best Friend aprons!  They chose an embroidery design and chose their fabrics and colors.  After the embroidery was done, they sewed them up.  They are reversible, too, and have ribbons for ties.

I did the embroidery, just as requested, on the apron piece before they sewed it.

Here is a better close-up.

Then, they also made matching doll aprons, for their "best friend" dolls!  (These doll aprons are also reversible, sharing their fabrics.  As best friends do).  Great job girls!

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STUDENT SHOWCASE August 2013

These are projects done by my amazing students - as taught in my sewing classes!  (See my "Student Showcase" photo album on my Facebook page for more)

Remember this post?  Here is the finished project!!!  This is the front of her YW Camp Flag.

And the back of the flag.  

Their value was "Good Works" and she did those letters with stretchy sequin trim.  Pretty creative eh?  They curved nicely.  She stitched around the edges with straight stitch.

She embroidered each girl's name on a butterfly fabric, then gave dimension to them by adding a small wire between another layer of butterfly.  Aren't they cute?

Here is a student's finished pillowcase!  This is usually the first project we complete in beginner sewing lessons - it teaches 5 basic skills!

This is a dress a student made in class, for a vacation - cute huh?  Front and back.

Single Ruffle skirt with elastic waist (and if you look real close you can see the ruffle is a double layer).  Still only one ruffle, though.

Single Ruffle skirt with elastic waist.  Cute prints together, right?

She is my newest student and this was her first completed project - I think a good owl print is perfect for a pillowcase!  And yes, sewing barefoot is allowed in my studio!

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STUDENT SHOWCASE ~ UPDATE ~ July 2013

STUDENT SHOWCASE ~ UPDATE ~ July 2013

These are projects done by my amazing students - as taught in my sewing classes!  (See my "Student Showcase" photo album on my Facebook page for more)

Sun "Applique"

Sun "Applique"

A Doll-size Tote Bag (made for American Girl dolls, or the like)

Window Valance - before mounting to the window wall.  It is a free-hanging board mount.

A sweet outfit for a doll - Summer Top and Basic Skirt



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Studio Update: Hair Bows, Personal Washcloths, Scripture Totes, His & Hers Placemats

Here is a sampling of the {smaller} projects I have done in the last week or so.  

Sometimes when a new baby is brought into a family with siblings, the new one gets all the attention AND all the presents!  It's fun for the siblings to receive something along with the baby's gift.  Here's one idea:  embroidered washcloths with each child's initial.  It's simple and each child feels a part of the excitement of the new baby!

It was a spontaneous lesson: they wanted to make hair bows!  We paused on the doll sundresses and made matching "best friend" hair bows.  

I attended a wedding reception for the son of a friend of mine.  They are a darling couple and I wanted to give them something "newlyweddish".  These kinds of gifts are sweet at the time because it commemorates their new marriage and the new changes in their lives, but later on are so special to look back and remember when it all began.  

Scripture Tote: "BLANK CANVAS".  This was designed for an LDS missionary to hold his mission scriptures.  His grandmother wanted to give him a special gift.  My part was just to create the tote out of artist canvas-type material.  She has another family member who is an artist and is going to illustrate many scripture stories on the blank canvas - I can't wait to see the finished project!

P.S. I will be selling scripture totes here.  You can contact me for custom orders.  More to come on that later...  :)

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LEARNING TO SEW ~ CLASS: Beginner Patch Quilt

Posting a new class that is ready for signup!
Beginner Patch Quilt class!


I had received a package from Modern Fabric Studio a while back and could not decide exactly what project to use these beautiful pieces for! I loved all the chrysanthemums in different colors and wanted to use them together, for sure. Eventually I decided on using them for my Beginner Patch Quilt sample, and I am quite pleased with the results.


Two of my boys are "helping" me piece it together. They are my most "subliminal" students. (Actually the older one here has done some sewing - but it was more about how FAST he could sew, I think...)


This sample is a "doll-size" quilt - finished 20" x 25". It is a good size quilt to start out with, for first time piecing and backing. Once you know how to make this basic quilt, you can make it in any size!


If you are interested in learning how to sew this Beginner Patch Quilt, contact me and we will get you started!


I could not resist showing you some of my cute students making their first doll quilts and arranging their own fabrics! I can't wait to see their finished products!


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SEWING LESSONS: SUMMER CAMPS 2012

Are you thinking about signing up for a summer sewing class?

Studio Julie Snow is now offering 6 different intensive sewing CAMPS!

These intensive camps are each one week long:
two hours/day, for 4 days in a row! A total of 8 hours!

Do you know how much sewing you can accomplish in 8 hours? That's like 2 months of weekly hour-long lessons!

*Some of you may learn a skill better by not having big breaks in between lessons.
*Some may have a limited schedule during the summer and can only take one week for an activity.
*Or maybe you just really want to sew a lot and pack it all into one week! :)

Plus, the camps are Group-size! You will have fun learning with others doing the same thing! And it costs less... (see ad below)

Check out the ad below for more details and look through the CAMPS to see what you may be interested in.

SEWING LESSONS: SUMMER CAMPS 2012

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Placemat Bags

I really wanted to share my beginning sewing students' (ages 7-9) latest accomplishment! We have been making these sweet bags for the last few weeks and they did such a beautiful job - I am "SEW PROUD" and they should be too!

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Heart Chains

I was looking for a cute but very simple idea for my Beginning Sewing students' group class. This group was ages 7-9 and they were literally on their second lesson with their brand new machines. I saw this on Pinterest and knew it would be a perfect way for them to practice their straight stitches.

{Sweet Bee Buzzings}

Here's what I did to prep:

1. Gather felt fabric to cut hearts.
2. Cut in strips a few inches wide. Fold in half longways with the fold toward you.
3. Cut half hearts on the fold with fabric scissors. When you open the fold, your heart is full. ;)
4. Sort your hearts in piles by color.

Lots of hearts to make lots of chains.

I thought the strips were really cool too, and I did not throw them away...I'm sure they can turn into something really cool later...

Sew them together in a chain. Basically, I had my students start with one heart - start at the top between the two bumps - sew a straight line from there to the bottom point. About halfway to the point, though, stop sewing and choose your next heart (this was good for them to make their own "pattern" too - red, white, pink - or random, however they wanted). Put your next heart right under the bottom point. The pieces nested perfectly into one another. Then they just kept going in that manner, sewing in a straight line through all the heart pieces.

They did a beautiful job! I sent them home with tons of hearts to "practice" and make chains to hang all over their houses or bedrooms for Valentine's Day.

Mine are hanging on the door of my Sewing Studio.



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BOYS' PILLOWCASES

Pillowcases are a great beginning sewing project. It may seem "cliche" but I love to start my sewing students with a basic pillowcase. It not only is a relatively quick project, but it teaches five very good, very essential skills: straight stitches, pivoting, zigzag overcast, pressing, hem.

In my home, I am always mixing and matching fabrics for one project. I had just finished three boys' Memory Quilts and had less whole pieces left over than I usually require for a whole pillowcase. My boys needed pillowcases to match go with (I don't believe things neeed to be matchy-matchy - they just need to go with) their quilts. Some of the prints I had large enough scraps of were these. (I had just found them at my local Wal*Mart)

I had enough of the middle one to do a front and a back, but only enough of the other two to do one front/back of each. (BTW, each front/ back is 22" x 36"). So I mixed em up and came up with this combination.

Not really rocket science but a fun way to combine the three prints into two pillowcases.

Then I needed to do one more. I had found one of those "panels" (also at Wal*Mart) that normally get made into a baby-blanket-sized quilt (it's one yard of 45" wide fabric or 36" x 45" - which is what I require for a folded standard-size pillowcase). Perfect size. It had TowMater next to Lightning McQueen.

Hopefully you can see that between the two sides is where the fold is. Where the center of the full panel would be if not folded. Make sense? You can see Lightning McQueen's nose rolling around to the other side...

They each took up half the panel so a "back-and-front" pillow was perfect!

We have three!

Now they are complete! They have a great time trading and switching them out!

He sure loves them! Also note the "Cars" socks - didn't even plan that!

What kind of pillowcases could you make?



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