I don't like to use the sewing machine, so I taught my oldest son (6 at the time, now freshly 9) how to sew by hand. He doesn't like to do it now but he likes to tell me what to make. The youngest (when he was 6, now 8) can do his own thing with sewing and it looks more like fabric art than real sewing, but it's wonderful. My goal, though, was not utilitarian, it was to get the pleasure I get out of needle, thread, and fabric. My mother taught us first on plastic canvas... we made tissue boxes for our teachers every year for Christmas. Then we did printed fabric, and trapunto. (I think that's it, we made pillows but the top part was puffy to make certain things stand out, stuffed with stuffing.)
You will give these children memories that will last a lifetime, that I promise you.
