Originally Posted by Maia B

You could start on cross stitch fabric. Or just draw lines for him to follow and reinforce if necessary. In teaching my boys, 7 & 9, I made the mistake of moving too quickly to machine sewing. Now they have little to no interest in hand sewing. If I had it to do over, I'd give them a solid start hand sewing before going to the machine. Btw, I bought them a Brother HS 2000, very nice for $200. Just got a Kenmore Mini Ultra for $50 + shipping at Sears.com on the advice of the pattern review posters. Haven't tried it yet. And they are already talking about who get which FWs when I die (I'm 38).