Another GD learning how to sew!
 

Last summer I spent time with #1 GD learning how to sew. Because she was close by we could spend lots of time together.
http://www.quiltingboard.com/main-f1...w-t195329.html

Well GD # 2 has been here with her cousins. Today we had a "sew day". Lucky for her, Mom has been sewing with her a little bit so putting this pillowcase together didn't take long![ATTACH=CONFIG]425778[/ATTACH]
Next project--working with GD# 3. Thank goodness #4 and #5 are only 4 and 3 years old! I get a break.

Very pretty case and pretty GD.

wow great job.

Great job and very pretty granddaughter

Beautiful granddaughter and I love the pretty pillow case she made! She should be proud and so should you for teaching them!

A proud DGD!!!
....... following in DGM footsteps.

What a nice project for her to take with her, and now she can sleep with it, and dream all about her special summer holiday with you!

You are so blessed to have so many GDs that are interested in learning. I havn't been able to lure anyone yet, but I still hold on to hope.

That is just so cool!!!!

I love that fabric...Have made quite a few quilts and pillowcases with it...My DIL said that the glitter look hold up. She washes the kids very frequently..Tell her Great Job!!

I've been having fun with my 11 year old granddaughter this summer - she made herself an apron, pajama pants, and a project called the companion bag, We have both had a great time - her next project is a professional tote - she will use it instead of a backpack. Isn't it great to be able to spend quality time with them!

Great job on the pillowcase. My granddaughter has been staying with me for a week and has finished a set of pillowcases, a machine embroidered wall quilt, and a pillow she made after shaving cream dying. Today we are going to bling up T-shirts. And you actually can quilt/sew with 4 and 5 year olds. Use glue instead of pins and guide the little fingers. Grandkids are so much fun.:thumbup:

Poor girl she looked horrified when I told her she couldn't use it until Fair was over!!

Emma--three of them live half mile and a hill away so they are here daily. I've always let them play in fabric from about 3 years old and up. I knew I had to get them early!

This is good to know. I got enough fabric but in different colors for 3 more pillowcases!

Thanks everyone for the kind words. It's a joy to hand down a skill that we care about so much to the next generation!

love that pillow case. My GDs are 1500 and 1650 miles away. Would love the opportunity to be able to sew with them. Count your blessings cause I'm really jealous of you.

Poor Kid! .... so proud and dreaming of sweet dreams with her own butterfly pillowcase ... and then, wham!
The Fair cannot come soon enough! ;)

I guess she has just had a lesson in patience! ...... :)

I spent two weeks with my GD and got her on the sewing machine post haste. She loved it! Hopefully a sewer in my future. I need the company since neither one of my DD's sews. *sigh* where did I go wrong?

Today GD#3--almost 8 yo--is sewing on paper. Remember those days?

We are using Possibilities "Fun for Kids" book as a guideline.

Two beautiful things!! Would love a GD but not likely ever to have one now.

Can you "adopt" a young one to teach how to sew? Maybe there's a girl in your community just waiting for someone to show her how.

Grandsons like to sew/quilt/embroider with grandma too!