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Old February 18th 11, 10:39 PM posted to rec.crafts.textiles.quilting
Hanne[_2_]
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I'm thinking about giving a friends daughter some 1-1 sewing classes
as part of her birthday present. She is going to be 8.

I found this site:
http://www.kids-sewing-projects.com/
which looks pretty good.

I'd prefer to go straight for the sewing machine, but skipping things
like how to thread it - I mean, I'll be sitting right next to her, and
I also think that getting to fun stuff sooner is more important. And
her dad's machine obviously threads differently anyway. Of course,
we'd be doing the "follow the line on paper" part before sewing on
fabric.

I did show her how to do some needle tatting last Summer and she tried
it out - not enough to show anything off, but enough that she, that
day, got the idea. She has pretty good attention span and good fine
motoric skills. And we get on :-)

Am I nuts? Do we need to do handstitching first?

Thanks for any input you might have.

Hanne in DK
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Old February 19th 11, 02:49 AM posted to rec.crafts.textiles.quilting
Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.
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Default Sewing lessons for kids

I had my granddaughter using my Janome 4800- by herself- at age 5. She
shopped for fabric from my stash for a large potholder- and chose colors
that coordinated well and matched her mom's kitchen. We fussy cut the
center square, added a border to each side, did a pillow turn with the
sandwich, and diagonal line quilting (she marked it with the wheeled chalk
marker). She did it all except I used the rotary cutter to cut the borders.
And granny (me!) did some serious hovering while she used the scissors, pins
and sewing machine. ;-) It turned out great!

Go for it! Woohoo!

Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.


"Hanne" wrote in message
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I'm thinking about giving a friends daughter some 1-1 sewing classes
as part of her birthday present. She is going to be 8.

I found this site:
http://www.kids-sewing-projects.com/
which looks pretty good.

I'd prefer to go straight for the sewing machine, but skipping things
like how to thread it - I mean, I'll be sitting right next to her, and
I also think that getting to fun stuff sooner is more important. And
her dad's machine obviously threads differently anyway. Of course,
we'd be doing the "follow the line on paper" part before sewing on
fabric.

I did show her how to do some needle tatting last Summer and she tried
it out - not enough to show anything off, but enough that she, that
day, got the idea. She has pretty good attention span and good fine
motoric skills. And we get on :-)

Am I nuts? Do we need to do handstitching first?

Thanks for any input you might have.

Hanne in DK

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Old February 19th 11, 04:08 PM posted to rec.crafts.textiles.quilting
Roberta[_3_]
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Default Sewing lessons for kids

What a great site! Now bookmarked for future use.
You are not nuts! Any child with the desire is surely able to operate
a machine at this age. (I was using mom's machine unsupervised at age
6.) It has the big advantage of producing results quickly. I once
helped my daughter's entire 2nd-grade class make drawstring bags for
their sports clothes, had a friend to help so we had 2 machines. About
15 kids IIRC. They were all able to stitch their bags in an afternoon,
including twisting string. (They had previously drawn crayon art on
pieces of muslin, so the fabric was ready-cut.)
Roberta in D

On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 13:39:11 -0800 (PST), Hanne
wrote:

I'm thinking about giving a friends daughter some 1-1 sewing classes
as part of her birthday present. She is going to be 8.

I found this site:
http://www.kids-sewing-projects.com/
which looks pretty good.

I'd prefer to go straight for the sewing machine, but skipping things
like how to thread it - I mean, I'll be sitting right next to her, and
I also think that getting to fun stuff sooner is more important. And
her dad's machine obviously threads differently anyway. Of course,
we'd be doing the "follow the line on paper" part before sewing on
fabric.

I did show her how to do some needle tatting last Summer and she tried
it out - not enough to show anything off, but enough that she, that
day, got the idea. She has pretty good attention span and good fine
motoric skills. And we get on :-)

Am I nuts? Do we need to do handstitching first?

Thanks for any input you might have.

Hanne in DK

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Old February 21st 11, 01:14 AM posted to rec.crafts.textiles.quilting
DiMa[_4_]
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I think teaching kids sewing at a young age is wonderful. My mother taught
me and by the age 11 I was helping her sew baby overalls from home. We got
through a huge amount each week and it really made a difference to their
budget.

My own daughters were sewing dolls clothes by hand at age six, even cutting
them out with supervision. Still got some of the ones they made for the cats
too.

Unfortunately nothing like that was ever offered at school - even though
suggestions were made by some parents to help with the class.

Their high school only offered one term per year for home economics and that
also included cooking, so not much was taught unless you decided to make a
career of it.

--
Di
I'm creative! You can't expect me to be neat too.
Vic Australia

"Hanne" wrote in message
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I'm thinking about giving a friends daughter some 1-1 sewing classes
as part of her birthday present. She is going to be 8.

I found this site:
http://www.kids-sewing-projects.com/
which looks pretty good.

I'd prefer to go straight for the sewing machine, but skipping things
like how to thread it - I mean, I'll be sitting right next to her, and
I also think that getting to fun stuff sooner is more important. And
her dad's machine obviously threads differently anyway. Of course,
we'd be doing the "follow the line on paper" part before sewing on
fabric.

I did show her how to do some needle tatting last Summer and she tried
it out - not enough to show anything off, but enough that she, that
day, got the idea. She has pretty good attention span and good fine
motoric skills. And we get on :-)

Am I nuts? Do we need to do handstitching first?

Thanks for any input you might have.

Hanne in DK



 




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