Each month our chapter has a small raffle to add to our coffers. We have to have matching funds for our grant. I won the raffle last month so it is my responsibility to bring the raffle item this month. We raised $29 last month and that is about $10 over the norm due to the fact that it was an awesome prize, a scarf from Cambodia, a valentine mug, chocolates, a cloth bag, a valentine dish, and a bottle of Bailey's Irish Cream.
Now I have to have something ready by Wednesday. Today I made a satin "ditty bag" with off white satin that I had bought years ago to make a wedding dress for my daughter and an antique doily. I just love the bag and I am sure my friends will also but what can I put with it? I found a small tin with a lid in the kitchen cabinet and filled it with some of my home made sea salt caramels and I put that in the bag but I need to come up with some thing else. I have a bottle of wine someone left here at Christmas, I may put that in the bag, I could add a couple of wine glasses. I have two more days to think.
Today I decided to let the house work go and spend the day in the sewing room. I sewed a blanket that my sons mother in law started for the boys, we will give that to them from both of us. I made the "ditty bag" (I think it will make a good laundry bag for travel.) I made three more little aprons to put on my Etsy site (SisterSusiesStuff), I made a carry-all for a friend using the fabric left from the pillows that came with our couch and more of the satin and a picture of the Michigan map that has her deceased husbands sailboat on the front. (I can't wait to see her so I can give it to her.) and then I took some chair cushion covers that another friend had given to me and more of the satin and made a bag for that friend. The chair cushions were just the cloth covers and when I took them apart I found that they had not been sewn but were hot glued!! Too funny, I didn't know anyone did that.
I have collected a good amount of used blue jeans now and will start a new quilt soon. The last one I made was a a scrap quilt with the frayed edges on one side, not sure I like that, I may tear it apart.
Thinking about taking the squares apart and then put a channel of denim between the squares, I have washed it twice since this picture and it has shredded some but I still don't like it. Too much work to just have it sit in a closet. I think it will make a great blanket for football games.
Here is the "ditty bag", I will make more for my Etsy site
The blanket for my grandsons from his other "Nonny" and I
One of the sweet little aprons I made today, I just love this vintage cherry fabric.
Time to rest, I hope your day was a success also.
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