RELIEF SOCIETY STRAWBERRY ACTIVITY
May 23rd was a nice activity with strawberries at church.  We made strawberry jam, decorated jam jars, cookies, made prints on paper or napkins from potato stencils, made great strawberry deserts, smoothies, it was really fun.  Thank you Imka and Elvira.

Friederun and Sister Schrade

CHURCH HIKE
Steve went on a hike with the church members while I was in the U.S. in Montana for my brothers funeral.  It was a nice get together and seems everyone had a good time.  There was a monument to be visited on the hike.

Monument

Carolyn and her boyfriend in the small town which has a stream running through it. 

Ivy is now walking!

Robyn gives Ivy a ride on the swing.

This is a giant cherry tree loaded with ripe cherries.

A crazy spiky pine tree.

Sister Shipton and Sister Lehman

Beautiful rose bush

Someone's nice house with a wonderful view of the vineyards

The German playgrounds are many times very unique and have things made from local logs and creative things like water pumps and sand pits.

Christie and Macy are jumping on an in the ground trampoline.

SEWING AND MENDING
It has been a few weeks since I have added anything to this blog.  A few weeks ago I completed some skirts and I did a lot of mending, on the average 3 things a day for awhile.  I took photos of the skirts but not the mending which consisted of altering dresses, repairing the seats of pants, and hemming dresses mainly.

Customer wanted a new skirt similar to one of her favorites.

This is a nice fabric that is a tight knit and is fully lined with a very lightweight lining.
This skirt turned out to be one of my favorite projects.  I think it is pretty and hangs nice.

 The customer wanted a reversible skirt from this unique and pretty fabric that she liked both sides of.  This was a nice project because it was challenging to make it with the amount of fabric and figure out how to make it reversible.  I made the pattern, a wrap around so I didn't have to worry about how to do a zipper and worry about how that would work for both sides.

Hand made belt loops (on each side)  made from braiding embroidery thread.