Sew Saturday

Spent a lovely day on Saturday celebrating Sew Saturday at Johnsons Wool and Haberdashery of Bond Street, Blackpool. As usual Suzanne made everyone welcome with a roaring log burning fire in the sewing room and lots of yummy cake!
Angela of angelic threads was demonstrating Simplicity patterns and made a gorgeous retro shopping bag. Pop over to her blog and catch up with her news: www.angelicthreads.blogspot.co.uk
Lots of free tutorials and sewing information available.

I was demonstrating very simple appliqué on hessian, ideal for a quick make. The photos above are similar and give a general idea.
Here are a couple more:

Susanne got her new sewing machine out of the box and by the end of the afternoon was happily doing free motion embroidery. It was nice to meet some lovely ladies who dropped in to join us.