apples for teachers

Hi everyone! Wow, tomorrow is the first day of school for my boys! I can't believe how fast the summer went. They are all packed and ready to go and boy, do they have a lot of supplies to take the first day. I'm gonna have my daughter help me carry everything.

During one of my blog stalking days, I came across this cute tutorial on how to make an apple pin cushion. I thought maybe I can't really make it cause I didn't think I could follow the curve of the apple nicely but it's really not too bad. I thought they would also make cute gifts for the teachers. So I spent most of yesterday making these apple pin cushions so my boys could take them on the first day of school. I think they are cute even if the teachers might not sew or actually use them as pin cushions. Maybe they could just sit nicely on the teachers' desks?

I'm giving the 2 larger ones to the teachers. I made the smaller one first and didn't realize it would be so small but it's a cute size. I think the larger ones are more real apple sized. This is more of the Doodlebug Designs fabric from Riley Blake Designs.

Here's a close up. The tutorial gives you the pattern so you can cut out each of the panels to sew up. I used some felt for the stem and I had these fabric leaves in my stash for a while. I trimmed the leaf for the smaller apple.

I added tags to the apples. The tag, apple & Happy sentiment are from Lawn Fawn and the other sentiment is from PTI. I think these turned out cute though my kids are thrown off by the purple color instead of the typical apple colors but purple is one of their school colors!

I'm happy to have made yet another sewing project on my list. I have one more project I'd like to try and think they would make nice gifts for teachers too. Maybe for Christmas!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Snowman gift card holder

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coffee cup shaped cards

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Operation Write Home and Perfect Paper Crafting Blog Hop!!!

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