Lately, The Daily Bell has been going after the public schools for their many negatives. This article, “Why School Has Nothing to Do with Students,” is another thought-provoking piece that should have parents thinking about better options for their children.
Another birthday popped up in our family, and I needed to make a pretty and useful gift for the birthday girl. So I found a favorite piece of fabric in my stash, and a couple of other fabrics to go with it, and made another zippered bag.
Like the last time I made a zippered bag, I got help from a video on YouTube. It’s one I’ve used before for zipper application tips, but this time I followed the entire process. You can’t beat Jenny Doan’s videos for clarity:
Some are calling it the Christian “Onion,” because The Babylon Bee specializes in Christian satire, something I’ve never heard of before. But it’s humor is clean and makes me smile, which qualifies it to join the list of websites that I visit each day.
Good humor always involves truth, even if it’s exaggerated. For instance, I suspect some of my fellow homeschoolers will chuckle at this post, as I did.
So if you’re looking for a laugh without stumbling onto anything NSFW, check out The Babylon Bee. But be warned, those of you addicted to social media or to your cat may not be as amused as I have been by some of the posts. 😉
…as a Christmas gift for one of my daughters, who has always loved pandas. I used two YouTube videos to help me make this bag.
In the first video, the sewist actually uses a purchased placemat to make the bag. This is a clever idea, but I had fabric I wanted to use, so I free-motion quilted my fabric, batting and lining after cutting them just a bit larger than the size of a placemat instead. (The extra space gets taken up by the quilting.) I quilted wavy lines alternately in two directions, and it came out just the way I wanted it to.
In the second video, Jenny Doan of the Missouri Quilt Co. explains how to put in a zipper in a bag, with fabric tabs covering each end of the zipper.
I didn’t have twill tape, so I made pull-tabs out of leftover black polka-dot fabric, which I also used as the lining for this bag.Â
Let’s celebrate Christmas with this adorable video. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you; I’ll be taking a break for the holidays and will see you back here in 2019.