Grandsons gift for Mom
11-04-2010, 06:00 AM
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I decided to jump in with both feet and teach my DGS to sew and help them make a small quilt for their Mom for Christmas. Julian, the 8 YO caught on real quick and I set up my mechanical machine with a stack of masking tape to help him with the seams. he was sewing at full speed. Jaden the almost 6 Yo was having problems getting an even seam so I did the same for him and then he did much better. I let him use the 9000 b/c it had the speed control. he keeps forgetting to put the presser foot down, but other than that he does fine. we've only worked one afternoon so far. i have to cut out more squares and do some more planning, but here's what they've done so far. I think that i wil let them tie it, so that theywill do most of the work b/c I'll probably have to bind it. we'll see.
Jaden was very proud too.
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Speeding along at 90 mph
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working on placement
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Julian sewing his first seam.
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He was so proud
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Jaden sewing his first seam
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11-04-2010, 06:10 AM
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Wonderful. My son --now 32--now blames me for not teaching him to sew! You could consider a pillowcase style quilt, no binding just sew all around, leaving a hole to turn, so they will have made it all. But I think they're doing a fabulous job!
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