Sewing/Crafting Projects

I had mentioned earlier about getting Poly-pellets to use in place of the beans in the bean bags from work. I wanted an easier way to keep the bean bags clean when we needed to disinfect/wash them. First thing I did was to just cut open the ends and dump out the beans. It was easier to just cut them rather than rip out the stitching. Then I washed the bags in a load of whites which I do in warm water with bleach added. Then I had to press them.

I had wanted to add iron-on numbers, but we could not find any numbers. But we did find letters. That will work. I will do a group of A's, a group of B"s and so on. This will help us to track which bags have been washed or need to be washed.
So here they are with the A's added on. I had to get 3 packages to have enough of each letter for this project. Then it was time to restuff with the poly-pellets and hand sew them closed. Today I did the maching sewing part to secure the handstitching. Don't want those bags busting open as we do the toss games with them. I realized one thing while machine stitching the ends. I need to make the bags less full. Sometimes it was a tight squeeze trying to stitch the ends. I used the zipper foot, but even that was hard at times.
Here are 10 "A" bags ready to go back to work and I will bring home another 10 for a batch of "B" bags. Now, just so you know I have not forgotten the surprise Halloween project. First I had to wash and dry the fabric to preshrink it. I did not want the chance of the fabric shrinking after I sew the project. It might cause the ribbon to pucker!
Ironing the Yum Yum fabric!
Ironing the orange fabric.
And finally ironing the witch hat fabric. That is where I will leave you for now and keep you still wondering what in the world I am doing with this Halloween fabric. Heehee.