Originally Posted by
nanna-up-north
... My great grandchildren are 5 and 12 and last summer they came up to the cabin in the woods and all they wanted to do was swim and ride 4-wheelers.....
Of course they did!
If you got the 5 yr old to be interested at all you did well.
Distance makes it harder because you can't work on projects with them on a regular basis. Have you thought about giving the 12 yr old a machine of her own? It doesn't need to be a featherweight-just a good basic vintage machine she can learn on. You might be able to talk her parents into enrolling her in 4H group to learn to sew too since you can't be there to teach her yourself.
Rodney