How awesome for you to mentor this young woman! I know there are books available for beginning sewing...I also know that JoAnn Fabrics offer sewing classes...they may even have books that would be helpful to you. I was fortunate to have a mom who sewed (and SHE was self-taught!), so I learned my love of sewing from her, but moved away from home before she could teach me...I took a beginner's sewing class at the Singer sewing machine store in the city I worked in at the time...Well worth the money!