In The Sewing Room

Reader Contribution by Robyn Dolan 
Published on October 13, 2010
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In the course of my entertaining of youngsters this summer, the girls expressed a desire to learn how to sew. Though we never got to the actual sewing machines, three girls and a boy went wild over hand sewing.  I have to admit that I spent most of our several 2-3 hour sessions threading and re-threading needles, pulling out stitches and demonstrating how to start seams, but eventually they caught on and proceeded to drive their parents to distraction looking for fabric “resources” – worn out clothes, sheets, blankets, etc. which they could cut up and re-make into bags, pockets and skirts.  My son cut some too-small sweatshirts into “pirate” shirts.

Several pockets got sewn on pocket-less jeans, and a promise of a sewing machine was extracted from an unsuspecting dad. All in all, the project was a resounding success.

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