Autumn Has Arrived

The weather finally cooled down and we had several days of rain.  I always like rain because then I can't work out in the yard and usually end up with some time to sew.  Since it's October, I made some Halloween pillow cases and a Halloween table runner.  I just couldn't resist the cute Peanuts materials for the pillow cases.

 

 

 

The fun thing about these pillow cases is that I used a new technique and made French seams which means there are no raw edges visible inside.  It worked pretty well and was super fast.

Another fun thing we did (while it was raining outside), Adam built a hand crank flashlight using the Tinker Crate he got this month. If you haven't tried the anything from Kiwi Crate, you should go to their website and see what they have to offer.....   www.kiwicrate.com   Adam loves it.  He has built little robot dudes with light up eyes using circuits.  He's made rockets that blast off using chemical reactions.  He built an awesome catapult.  And then, like I said, this month he made a hand crank flash light using resistors and diodes, etc.  He learns a lot (and so do I).  Like, did you know that Edison did invent Direct Current electricity (DC) but Tesla actually invented Alternating Current electricity (AC)?  The electricity gets to our house using AC and then there are converters in our various electrical appliances and electronics to change it to DC so the things work. 

Here is a picture of Adam with his flashlight. It looks way better in the dark but I couldn't really get a good picture of it.