Lansing Clippers Sew

  Tee Top Challenge The Lansing Clippers, a chapter of the American Sewing Guild, had a recent program where the members were challenged to fit a pattern and make a tee top.   The pattern was the ABB (Anything But Basic) tee top from Cooper Creek Patterns.   I joined the challenge and set about the task of fitting and sewing a tee top for myself, The fitting part of the challenge was relatively easy for me because I just finished an online class taught by Alexandra Morgan of In-House Patterns.   Although the class was about fitting a woven top, I still learned techniques that enabled me to fit a pattern for a knit top.   I used her information on how to make adjustments to the pattern as well as the order to use to make those adjustments.   That information was very useful to me to get the ABB tee top to fit. Although fitting the tee top was easy, I cannot say the same about actually making the top.   I chose a red and black plaid knit that I h...

  A Quilt of Memories To start at the beginning, years and years ago I bought my first embroidery machine.   Over time I made several baby quilts featuring embroidery designs for my grandbabies. I made others for friends and extended family.   I would show each one to my mom and after a while she commented that she wished I would embroider some designs for her to use in a quilt. I hate to admit it but several years passed and then one Christmas I was struggling with what to get for my mom.    After all I now know we all reach that age when there is really nothing that we need and if we do need or want something we probably just go out and buy it for ourselves. I ran across a set of embroidery designs featuring farm scenes with barns, tractors and various farm animals done in a single color.   Knowing that my dad was a big John Deere fan, I stitched out the designs in a variegated green thread and trimmed the blocks to 10 ½ inches and gave them to my...