Tea Towel Time

 I read in one of my sewing group newsletters that one way to use up your scraps of linen was to make teatowels for gifts and/or for charity stalls.  So away I went.  but then I did buy some new fabrics as well!
Here are the first efforts - genuine linen scraps and trims from the stash.






Then I bought these fruit and vegetable prints at a patchwork shop. They were on special!

This printed French linen I bought while on a bus trip with my sewing group.  Unfortunately I only bought .5 metre and as it is a one way fabric (lengthways) I really needed .7 metre so I had to add some plain black linen at each end.

So far I have made 21 tea towels!

Costumes

I have been buried for weeks under a heap of dance costumes.  Here are some of the beautiful African children in their costumes.