E-Reader cover finish!

Hoppy Froggies! Padsworth and I sure hope that many of you will be completing pillowcases and e-reader covers for the Remember Servicemen and Women in September project!

We're proud to be a part of the effort, and decided that the Snoopy pillowcase was just not enough . . . Padsworth was determined that we were going to complete an e-reader cover!
Luckily, Melissa at SewBittersweetDesigns had a bodacious tutorial that helped us along! 
Whatcha think?  Yes, yes, I know you all love Padsworth....how does the cover look?? (Grin)

Melissa's tut had instructions for a velcro closure, and for the life of me, I couldn't find my velcro in my stash. Plus, I'm old school, and decided a button and buttonhole might be sturdier, so that's how we rolled.

Here is Padsworth showing you the zipper to hold the reader in safety:

And here is one last shot of the cover and our dapper froggie friend:

I don't have an e-reader, so I stuck a ruler in there to show you that it really is a zipper pocket! 

I'm proud to be participating in this effort for our servicemen and servicewomen, and I hope that you will hop to it, and make a pillowcase or e-reader cover to send over! Get all the details over at Melissa's, or at Kristy's blog, or from Sondra, at Contemporary Cloth. 

Love,

Remember Service Men and Women campaign

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Padsworth and I are all in for the Remember our Service Men and Women campaign over at HopefulThreads and SewBittersweetDesigns . . .

I found some really happy fabric in my stash, and I made a pillowcase! I hope that whoever receives this will not think of it as being for a younger person, but will instead get a smile from it!

Ready? It stars our old friend, happy-dancer-extraordinaire, Snoopy!

Here is the finished pillowcase:

I'm off to score some more fabric from my stash --- I'm either going to make another pillowcase, or maybe an e-reader cover, from one of Melissa's great tutorials!

Join us, won't you? We'd love to have over one hundred gifts to send over!

Love,

 

A September project . . .

I'd like to help spread the word about a really cool project for this month! I've been following some quilting bloggers whose hubbys are deployed in Afghanistan, Iraq, etc., and I appreciate their service to our country far more than my words can convey.

Melissa, over at SewBittersweet Designs, is teaming up with Kristy at Hopeful Threads, to put together some gifties for deployed men and women.  Melissa relates, "We wanted to not only send Holiday gifts to the soldiers, but something handmade and something useful. After much hemming and hawing we have come up with two different items that we think would be well used down range: Pillowcases and E-Reader Covers.  Every soldier has a pillow and many have e-readers or something similar."

Their goal is to make one gift for each of the fifty soldiers in Melissa's hubby's battery, plus fifty more, so that each soldier can "pass it forward" to another service person in the area. Another note from Melissa: 

"It is easy to sometimes feel forgotten, especially at this stage in the “war”.  Our family members leave and our whole world changes.  It is easy to feel as though you have no community – it was how I felt before I joined this wonderful community online. The idea of being able to send the men and women in my husband’s battery a Handmade Holiday…well it just makes my heart sing. I know that they would feel loved and remembered and well taken care of. The taken care of part is, I think, what means the most. They are out there every day, laying it all on the line, taking care of us, and I can’t think of a better way to make them feel like someone else wants to take care of them too than taking the time to make a handmade gift."

I hope that you will visit these two ladies' blogs and get all the details . . . grab the button, raid your stash, and check out the tutorials this month, so that you can participate!

Padsworth and I are ready, and we hope you'll join us!

Love,