October 16, 2007 @ 8:39 am | Filed under: Sewing and Handwork
I’ve been putting together a series of reviews of instructional sewing materials aimed at kids. Before I start posting them, I thought I’d ask for suggestions of other books or resources to include.
Here are the ones I’ll be reviewing (so far):
Simple Sewing
Stitches and Pins: A Beginning Sewing Book for Girls
Sewing Machine Fun
Any others I should take a look at?
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Hi Melissa! I bought a kit from Winky Cherry for my oldest dd this year, who will be 6 in Feb. I haven’t opened it yet, as I’m procrastinating. I wish that *I* knew how to sew and want my dd’s to learn SO badly…but am a little fearful of it myself! Anyway, it is called My First Sewing Book, but I believe it is hand sewing, are you doing machines?
I don’t comment very often, but I LOVE your blog and appreciate you sharing your thoughts, experiences, wisdom and ideas with us!
Posted on October 16th, 2007 at 9:44 amlissa, i’d love to see you compare those to the winky cherry books: http://www.amazon.com/First-Machine-Sewing-Book-Stitching/dp/0935278400
looking forward to reading your review.
Posted on October 16th, 2007 at 10:05 amThere is a book I’d be curious if you could use with kids. It’s:
Bend-the-Rules Sewing by Amy Karol
Posted on October 16th, 2007 at 10:23 amNo other suggestions, but I will be following this review. I taught my 19 year old to sew, but I want to teach my two other girls to sew. They are 5 and 3. My boys will learn to sew on buttons and such as well… They are 8, 7 , 2, and 1 (of course the younger ones will learn when they are a little older).
Posted on October 16th, 2007 at 11:16 amOh that Mary Frances one looks delightful!! Looking forward to your reviews! I am teaching my daughter (11) to sew on my grandmother’s 1900’s Singer, we’re having such fun!! More later on this
Posted on October 16th, 2007 at 4:39 pmWe own almost all of these, but “Sewing with St. Anne” is the favorite. The Klutz book is nice too, in that it includes the materials.
Posted on October 16th, 2007 at 9:21 pmI have to agree with Alice — Sewing with St. Anne is great! It not only is gentle and easy to foloow the projects are unique and usable!
I’ll look forward to your “take” on these….
Posted on October 17th, 2007 at 3:52 pmIt is funny to me that I am commenting on a sewing post…as I’m a newbie, wanna-be sewer (in the middle of a could-be-disastrous Halloween sewing excursion) but I bought See and Sew by Tina Davis this summer to try out with my 6 year old daughter. We haven’t tried it yet, of course, but it looks promising. Maybe I should have started in the teach-your-child-to-sew category BEFORE I jumped into the fancy Native American costume that I am now entrenched in.
Posted on October 17th, 2007 at 9:35 pmI really liked “Sewing with felt” by Buff McAllister. Great basic projects for hand-sewing.
Posted on October 18th, 2007 at 3:33 pmThis isn’t aimed at children, but when I started sewing I found the Reader’s Digest Complete Guide to Sewing to be really helpful.
Posted on October 21st, 2007 at 11:17 amWe have the red “Fun” one. The page showing the parts of the sewing machine is excellent. There are a few good tips. The projects look fun–the hamburger! But in reality this was a total waste of money. There are tons of free patterns on the internet for easy projects. Making cloth napkins teaches a lot, then move up to a simple apron, pillow or skirt. We went from the parts of the sewing machine straight into making pajama pants with no ill effects!
Posted on October 25th, 2007 at 5:26 amHello it was an absolute pleasure to come across, and read your blog. You really have some interesting information that I will have to share with my wife. If your ever looking for fabrics Lauren & I would be more than willing to help. Just let us know. Have a great evening.
Josh & Lauren
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Hello it was an absolute pleasure to come across, and read your blog. You really have some interesting information that I will have to share with my wife. If your ever looking for fabrics Lauren & I would be more than willing to help. Just let us know. Have a great evening.
Josh & Lauren
Posted on October 25th, 2007 at 5:50 pmhttp://www.trendyfabrics.com
My 12 year old likes Sew U by Wendy Mullin of Built by Wendy. It’s aimed at 20-somethings. The tone of the book reminds me of an updated high school home ec course. It’s straight forward enough to be used by the over-10 crowd, assuming the crowd is interested in skirts and such (don’t you pity the boys who want to learn to sew? given that so much of the material is geared to girls).
Also, I just discovered that Simplicity is coming out with a line for teens (female) who want to start sewing. It’s called … oh shoot, what is it called … something about Gretchen, like “The Gretchen Collection”. There’s one pattern in the collection so far.
Posted on November 1st, 2007 at 5:42 am