Monthly Project Work Meeting

 

 

   Bronte, in her last year of being a 4-H clover bud, brought the fleece pillow she has finished.  Doing her owl pillow, she was able to practice the skills of enlarging a pattern, cutting, placement of design, doing the blanket stitch by hand, machine stitching and stuffing the pillow.  Very cute.

   Today she measured, cut out, pressed, and began sewing up a pillow case from fabric matching a quilt her mother is making for her.  She just needs to sew the French seam around the edge and it will be finished.  Good job, Bronte.




















   Alexa made progress on her doll quilt today, making sure all the inside corners of each block were precisely lined up.  She did some taking out and re-doing today.  It is coming along well.  We'll get a photo next time.



The girls are making headway on their pastel paintings done on suede board



The beauty is emerging

 

 

 

 

Knitting Day

    After the business part of our meeting
 today,  Alexa gave us a presentation from
 a school report she had done on Holland.
  She chose the subject because her great,
great grandparents immigrated from there
 to America in 1907.  We learned some
 interesting facts about the country.







  

     Even though it is late in the 4-H year (since county fair is in July) and we usually work on projects chosen much earlier in the year, we had a fun time today learning how to knit.  Of course most of us had done some knitting before, but it had been long enough that all of us had to be reminded (or shown for the first time) how to cast on.   Thanks, Sarah, we enjoyed it.

The rest of the time was used mostly for getting
 started on art projects.  Other projects are
 beginning to be finished and ready for fair!

 

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