sewing pillow cases

I recently visited a different Homemaker group meeting at the extension office. This group meets monthly and they do different types of crafts.
Two of their members had passed away in the past year and they felt that their group was getting very small, so invited us members of Crazy Quilters to come visit and join if we wish to.

On this day they were sewing pillow cases to be donated to Norton Childrens Hospital.  All the fabrics were Halloween themed to bring a bit of cheer to the kids who are hospitalized at Halloween and missing out on trick-or-treating or parties.

Here are Joan and the two Lindas from my regular quilt group.

A few finished pillow cases. One fabric for the body with a coordinating fabric at the side.

The fabric was already cut and mostly pinned and ready to sew.

The cases are pinned and sewn in such a way that when you turn them from inside out, you have only one raw edge to deal with.

Linda brought her serger to finish those raw edges and we zig zagged some of them too.

Fun fabrics!

There are sure to be a few sewing boo-boos, so someone gets stuck with seam ripper duty.

We finished up a big pile that day.

Linda took these home to wash with a required non-allergenic laundry soap. Then she will bring them back for ironing and packing individually in zip lock bags.

This group has a potluck lunch at every meeting...temptingly dangerous to one's weight goals.

I slipped away this time because I had to make a run to the post office. Next time???

A very nice group of ladies though, friendly and welcoming.