My oh my ……diapers from T-shirts?….but of course! Dare I say I got a new sewing machine so I could zigzag the edges? And also a pinking shears? My old machine has a date of 1950+ on it….an old Singer that is sturdy…no plastic and I can hem jeans and plow right over the flat felled seams with no problem. Alas it didn’t zig-zag.
Sew and Do at church involves making quilts for Lutheran World Relief, making health kits, baby kits, and school kits.
Since cloth diapers are so expensive and getting harder to find, someone creative has figured out a way to sew a diaper from the bottom 2/3 of T-shirt or using flannel and a strip from a mattress pad! See the picture for how colorful the diapers can be. The baby kits also need 2 blankets, so I’ve crocheted and knit a couple.
So far at Sew and Do day I’ve been sewing straight seams on the edges of the quilts that the group makes. The group works assembly-line style. The tops, backing, and sometimes the filler (if it is not fiberfill) are all pressed. Next the layers are measured and stacked and then pin-basted. Next someone sews almost all the way around, turns it right side out, presses, and then sew all around on the right side. Next a couple people tie the quilt with embroidery floss and it is finished. This year the group completed 71 quilts.
