Originally Posted by tessagin

I agree with JenniePenny! We helped my niece get her daughter a sewing machine. She's 8. She was really getting into sewing and it was a reward for different things. She made 3 preemie quilts. Hand tied a couple and SITD on the other. She hand-pieced some scraps of batting I had and also did a few things for me. I let her pick material from my stash and she also bought some with money earned. She is having a ball! We had wondered though if it was a phase she was going through because she hadn't done any thing for about a month or more. Turns out she was building her own stash getting material (old clothes) from the neighbors. She wanted to have her own and not borrow from anyone else.