Sewing Something Special for Christmas

For 6 weeks, expert seamstress Nancy Morris has been teaching sewing classes on how to make Biblical costumes. Attendees constructed outfits for children, themselves, and clothes for actors in the Nativity pageant. We've learned how to follow a pattern, finish edges with bias tape and hemming, and get thread into those complicated machines!

Cindy Jacobs poses with Nancy Morris and a costume for her son. Almost all of her materials came free from the stash we have in the closet, courtesy of the SWA's Resource Depot.

Liz Robertson, below, cuts along a pattern for the vest for her daughter Jessica's costume. (It was only the second pattern I had ever followed. Nancy is a very patient teacher.)

Julie Montgomery helped at our cutting table, then braved a sewing machine for her first straight stitched, rolled hem. With thread! 

Cris Rabbage shows the back of a vest for her daughter. Cris has been a huge help sewing for the Nativity last year too.

Helen Scott can whip up props with only a little direction. Last year she sewed a humongous shepherd's tent (which we'll use in this year's play.) This year, pictured below, she is making fringe from thick corded fabric for Joseph's headdress.

If you would still like to make a costume, help sew props, or have sewing questions, contact Nancy. Pageant rehearsals start tomorrow (Wed, Nov 7, 2010) at 7:00pm at the Jupiter Mormon church gym. All ages are welcome to join the cast - no experience necessary. It will be fun!