A few weeks ago, the middle school science teacher asked my daughter (because she knew I sewed) if I would be able to design and make some chair back covers for their classroom.  Seems she wanted to remove the desks from her classroom and just have the kids work at tables with chairs, to facilitate more space and group scientific learning.

I made the executive decision 😉 that this was a job for our local quilt group – as I wasn’t sure I had the time to put them together.

So, last month at our meeting, I explained the idea to my quilt pals, and they helped me develop a pattern for the chair covers.  Then, we set about trying (and some tried harder than others!) to sew up some prototypes for the classroom.  I took them over to the school and tried them out – one fit great, but was too tight to hold books.  The other was perfect – still trying to figure out how we got two different sizes from the same pattern, though!

Anyway, with some fabric donations from the group, as well as help sewing some of them from a local friend, we delivered and installed 20 chair covers for the science classroom. 

Yeah for the quilt group and their community service call-to-action!  Yeah for the teacher, who can help protect the kids’ textbooks!  Yeah for the kids, who have a place to put their notebooks while they are becoming mad scientists!