Pillow Cases

Sister Judy Pearce had us over at her home and taught us how to sew! We made pillow cases from two pieces of fabric, and we included French seams. Pretty fancy, right? They all turned out SO well! Props to our young women for their direction-following skills and their pillow-case-sewing skills!

Sister Maureen Speed was also able to come and help us out.

There were enough borrowed sewing machines there that each young woman and each leader was able to sit at her own. Thanks to everyone who brought a sewing machine!!

We had a lot of "pressing" issues to attend to throughout the project!

We had a ton of fun and were even getting a little silly by the end...

Here's the finished product. Everyone did such a great job on their pillow cases!

Thank you, SO MUCH, Sister Pearce and Sister Speed for teaching us how to make these awesome pillow cases!

Sister Pearce also sent an email to help us make another pillow case on our own:

I hope the girls enjoyed their sewing experience last night.  They all did such a good job on making their pillowcases.

For the pillowcases we made, we used the following fabrics:
                3/4 yard fabric 1
                1/3 yard fabric 2

A step-by-step how-to is given at the following website:

http://www.allpeoplequilt.com/millionpillowcases/instructions/RollItUp.pdf

I just trimmed off the selvage edges of the fabric and used the amount of fabric that was left – not trimming it down further to fit the dimensions given on the pattern. 

One can also add an accent fabric between the two pieces of fabric.  This site shows how to do that:

http://www.rainydayquiltschool.com/Rolled%20Pillowcase%20Pattern.pdf

Just Google “free pillowcase patterns” and you can find all types of pillowcase patterns.

Hearts, Hearts, Hearts!

For our Valentine's Day activity this year, we met at the church at 7pm. Sister Iverson brought us cupcakes to decorate and eat while we also decorated Valentine's cards and Brittany brought us oragami kits so we could make oragami hearts. The girls were so creative with their decorations! It sounded like the week was going pretty slowly for most of the young women, so it was nice to unwind and eat cupcakes!

And then, after the cupcakes were eaten and the cards decorated, we took some cupcakes with us and heart-attacked each of the bishopric members' houses. It was a blast!

Iron Chef--Mar 9th

This week for our activity, we will be having an Iron Chef competition! We are meeting in the Primary room at 7pm on Wednesday the 9th. Let us know if you need rides!

Please encourage your girls' creativity as the secret ingredient is cream cheese. They must make any dish of their choice, as long as it has cream cheese in it, before they come to the church for the activity. It can be an entree, a dessert, or a side dish. They will be judged in three categories:

1. Taste--it should taste good.

2. Presentation--it should look good.

3. Originality--it should be unique.
Our three judges will be the three members of the bishopric. The 1st and 2nd place winners will each receive a $5 gift certificate to Sonic!

Please let us know if any of the girls need help obtaining or preparing the food- we are more than happy to assist them.

Interesting fact: The original "Iron Chef" TV show was created in Japan.