We started out with a large pile of scrap trim and fabrics from the garage stash. I told the girls to find some trim and a piece of fabric that matched for their first real project: tote bags. Jess found a lovely Hoffman print from the Flower Fairy Collection with little pink flowers by Cecily Mary Barker. I should post the dress that the scraps came from since it used to belong to Hillary and later Audrey wore it. Audrey found some guitar printed fabric from Moda that we made baby bibs out of for Hayden last year. Both girls found rickrack trim. The piece Jess chose was from my old sewing teacher's stash. When she passed away many years ago, her daughter gave me a huge box of her treasures. So I guess it is considered "vintage" trim.
Jess is the giggle bug when it comes to photos.
First lesson is to always iron, iron, iron!!! Audrey thinks it is actually fun and her new job is to iron everything after it gets washed before we start projects.
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| The kitty is very comfortable ! |
Jess working at pinning her handle strap before stitching.
Audrey and Jess took to sewing like a pros...must be in their genes. My older daughter never really liked it at all. She just enjoys wearing the clothes. Notice in some of Audrey's pictures that the cat is lurking in the background to watch.His name is Thin Lizzy and he belongs to my youngest son, Lane.
Audrey does not like threading the machine! But I told them that if you sew a green strip of rick rack on with black or pink thread, it just screams "Homemade" in a negative way. It's always worth the time to change the thread colors out.
I love the concentration as she turns the project right side out...like she can't quite believe it looks right.
Audrey working on pinning on her trim in a nice straight line. I marked both end points with a safety pin and told her to follow the pattern in the center of the guitars. After she finished, it was pinned above the guitars and she asks "Mom, why did you put these safety pins on the ends?" I was like..."so you could line up the trim below the fold down seam line...along the CENTER of the guitars".
"Oh, oops" she replied.
Both girls enjoyed the process of creating their tote bags. I made them change the thread color to match the trim and each bag for practice. They are getting really good at threading the machine, but that darn back-stitching is Jess's least favorite.
Next project will be skirts. And we will also be altering some thrift store finds for back to school items.
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