The kids have expressed interest in sewing, and I have interest in teaching them. Today I got my old sewing machine from my mom's house. I felt that starting on a basic mechanical machine would give them proper fundamentals of machine mechanics and maintenance.
They all had turns to sew some samples. Then Zuri wanted to sew a heart and Mardie wanted to make a dragon.
Zuri's project was pretty easy. Cut out a heart and stitch it up, turn and topstitch.
Mardie's involved making a pattern, coloring, ironing and lots of curves and angles. He did great though and even whipstitched the opening closed by hand after he stuffed his dragon.
I think we are going to have a lot of fun with sewing. I need to find some basic clothing patterns for shorts and pajamas that have multi sizing so they can experiment with making some clothes.
Thanks mommy for letting us use the machine :)
Friday, March 23, 2012
Sewing School
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