Sewing Lessons at Home
— 01/27/10
I'm trying to help my daughter learn to sew. It is "hard" for her so she doesn't much like it but I got her inspired with a recent project. A Pink/Brown John Deere Rag Skirt.
I was teaching her the basic skill of following the lines when cutting. I made her a cardboard template that was a 7" square. She traced around it on the fabric and then cut out over 100 squares. Half of them were brown flannel and the other half from assorted brown calicos, ginghams, and John Deere fabrics in pinks and browns. We made it thru that lesson and she did a pretty good job!
Next she put a flannel square with a printed square with wrong sides together. I had her trace a large X from corner to corner with an erasable sewing market. She was able to learn the skill of following a straight line while sewing a straight stitch and how to manage the speed of the sewing machine. We didn't get past refilling and rethreading the bobbin though! Working on that part :)
She loved working on it and felt a real sense of accomplishment to see it all done and wear it! I gave her assistance when it came to cutting out the finished area of joined squares and sewing up the skirt with a side zipper and bias trimmed waistband. I regret I didn't sew the side seams with right sides out so we could have 'ragged' them like we did the rest of it.
How do you like it? A really fun project and it makes a super warm and cozy quilt skirt!
It turned out so cute! We like raggedy quilted things!
"What's stitched in love cannot be torn!"
I was teaching her the basic skill of following the lines when cutting. I made her a cardboard template that was a 7" square. She traced around it on the fabric and then cut out over 100 squares. Half of them were brown flannel and the other half from assorted brown calicos, ginghams, and John Deere fabrics in pinks and browns. We made it thru that lesson and she did a pretty good job!
Next she put a flannel square with a printed square with wrong sides together. I had her trace a large X from corner to corner with an erasable sewing market. She was able to learn the skill of following a straight line while sewing a straight stitch and how to manage the speed of the sewing machine. We didn't get past refilling and rethreading the bobbin though! Working on that part :)
She loved working on it and felt a real sense of accomplishment to see it all done and wear it! I gave her assistance when it came to cutting out the finished area of joined squares and sewing up the skirt with a side zipper and bias trimmed waistband. I regret I didn't sew the side seams with right sides out so we could have 'ragged' them like we did the rest of it.
How do you like it? A really fun project and it makes a super warm and cozy quilt skirt!
It turned out so cute! We like raggedy quilted things!"What's stitched in love cannot be torn!"
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The skirt did turn out VERY cute! I love it. Is there a way to use this patchwork idea with your Gracen pattern?
MARMEE:
YES surely you could! All we did was put together a large pieced area. Large enough to cut a skirt front from...then another flat piece of pieced together squares for a piece large enough to cut out the back skirt...then just proceeded to cut them out like you would from a flat piece of fabric and sew the skirt together just like you would if it was a plain piece of fabric. Using flannel for the backing made it quite heavy..so for a lighter weight skirt it would be best to use 2 pieces of cotton broadcloth type fabric.