sewing at church and this week’s to do list

Hello everyone 

We’re attending a new to us church.  Their new pastor is someone we’ve known for more than 20 years.  

We’ve jumped into several  activities and are really glad to be doing so.  

My favorite is the sewing group.  

Look at this wonderful sewing space full of supplies and workers.  

The main sewing project is tote bags.  they have one pocket inside and one pocket outside.  The handles are webbing.  

Missionaries take this bags to other countries and gift them to people in very poor areas. I’ve been told that a missionary team will take a suitcase full of these bags with them. And that’s a lot of bags!

The sewing space is so nice! It has cutting tables where some women cut out the body of the bag and the pieces for the pockets.

The sewing machines are in the center of the room and electric cords come down from the ceiling so we aren’t tripping over sewing machines plugged into the wall.

There are ironing stations and several sergers for the people who finish the inside seams.  

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The map on the wall has pins marking all the places these bags have been sent.

That’s a cart full of bags with the pockets matched up to them.

I usually sew on pockets on the inside and out

some people cut out, some people iron,  some pin on the pockets and some sew on the pockets and some people sew on the handles and some serge around the edges

Some of the women also sew simple little girl dresses and little boy shorts for missionaries to gift to people.  

Here’s my To Do list for this week 

I checked off most of the tasks on last weeks list and feel like I’m getting back to my productive self but a few jobs moved to this week.  

Hope you all have a good new week 

❤️ Rhonda