TWO exhausting days, but good reward
When we visited the US this spring, I had a golden opportunity to help two grandchildren (ages 8 and 5) to learn a bit about sewing and piecing a quilt.
Whew! What a job to keep their little fingers out from under the needle and their feet (all four) off the foot feed so they would not get my finger! We struggled, but managed to take turns with the one machine available. Their mother had a bag of scraps from her first quilt and I had a few scraps from one I had just finished. Those fabrics provided the motivation for the two kids to make something real while they practiced using the machine. The end product was purely their own invention--a motivation in itself.
Have any of you tried teaching little people to sew? What was your experience?