Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Our Make Welcome Christmas party ... LOTS of pictures!

The Make Welcome women came to my house yesterday for our last sewing class of the year and a Christmas party.

 I rearranged furniture in my studio to make room to set up five (!!!) sewing machines,


baked sugar cookies and mixed up icing for cookie decorating.



And then they came!  The room was a beehive of activity - sewing tote bags, diaper changing pads, and making fabric flowers.









Lots of helping happened ...


Sang finished her first project - a pieced diaper changing pad.  (sorry the color's not so great in this picture).



San Aye finished her pieced changing pad, too.  And then we discovered that this sweet lady that I've really come to love, who has such a struggle with the machine at times ...



...does exquisite hand embroidery!  I wish you could really see the detail of these fine stitches.  She gave these pillowcases that she embroidered to Julia and me.  What was a gift we will both treasure!  And I can't wait for her to teach the rest of us how to do these unique herringbone stitches.  So much we can all learn from each other.


Meanwhile in the big room, Julia and Jenny were keeping the kids busy and happy ...


making cotton ball sheep...



decorating cookies 
(Everytime I asked Cadie to show me her cookie, 
she held it right up in front of her face!)


Luke had a great time entertaining baby David Thang, who has grown sooooo much!



Ruth, who just turned 2,  is a little artist.

 Finally, we all gathered around the table.  The women decorated some cookies, too.  We drank tea and coffee and talked and laughed ...




 and Julia shared some special Christmas traditions 
and we read verses about the birth of Jesus in Burmese.


Sure do love these ladies.  
I won't see most of them again til February, and I will miss them
but I'm excited to be heading to NY at the beginning of the year for ... 

Grandbaby #2!

5 comments:

Susan said...

who is in NY with grandbaby #2

beth said...

Erin and Luke. They were in Montana during the summer but are back in NY now for a while longer before they move permanently back to Montana.

Peg said...

Looks like fun was had by all! Love it!

Andrea - The Earthen Vessel said...

sooooo nice (hugs)

Lisa said...

This is so sweet and such a neat ministry!! I can't believe that is your house- wish I could see it in person! Happy new year!