Day 7: First Sewing Project

Of the many ideas I gave Cat to use to earn stickers for the various "academic/creative" portion of her sticker chart (see this post), "do a sewing project" is the one she is definitely the most eager to do. So she completed her first sewing project less than a week after school got out and she did an awesome job.

I spent a few minutes orienting her to the machine: what's what, how to start, how to backstitch, etc., then I let her practice for a minute on some scraps. We decided to start with this tote bag from Family Fun because it was quick and simple and yielded almost instant results. We used her "NY Princess" shirt that she's been wearing for almost 2 years, since Grammy brought it to her from NYC. We just had to get a little more mileage out of it!

Cat did the cutting and I made the executive decision to use white thread so that Cat could see where her seam was a little easier. It didn't really matter, after all, since the seam ends up on the inside. And... Cat did the sewing completely by herself.

And... she's used it. I call that a success!

She has asked me several times since then when she can do her next sewing project, but I just don't feel like I can sit down with her to do another one right now. We might look for one more simple one to do before we move, but probably it will be best to try to do that once we have the big M behind us.