THIS LESSON IS PART OF THE SEWING WITH KIDS E-COURSE Sewing a straight line might take more practice than you’d think. The machine starts going faster than they’d anticipate as they learn to control their speed with the foot pedal, and they haven’t yet had much practice controlling the fabric as they sew. For a […]
THIS LESSON IS PART OF THE SEWING WITH KIDS E-COURSE This course requires that you know how to thread your machine, in order to teach it. If you’re unfamiliar with how to do any part of this, refer to the Threading the Machine lesson in the Introduction to Sewing course. For you, it may be […]
Every kid loves to write secret messages. Codes, secret languages, mirror imaged lettering… This time, they’ll be “writing” a message that can only be read when it’s held up to a source of light. INSTRUCTIONS Write a secret message in big letters on a piece of cardstock using a pencil. The bigger the lettering, the […]
THIS LESSON IS PART OF THE SEWING WITH KIDS E-COURSE If your sewing machine has a speed adjustment, you will want it set to slow until you feel they have gotten comfortable with the sewing machine. Sewing isn’t something that you should just let them go for. You will need to stand by their side […]
THIS LESSON IS PART OF THE SEWING WITH KIDS E-COURSE A little warning, your kid will think this lesson is boring. HELLO, I just want to sew, I mean, come on! The truth is, they need to know it though, at least to some extent. So instead of making them learn all 20 parts we […]