Great sewing project for me and my seven year old

I wanted an easy, quick project that I could do with my seven year old daughter. From the Tikki quilting shop in Kew I bought a ready cut bunting kit. I could have easily made my own, but the kit made everything much easier for us.

My daughter sewed the triangles together, we both turned them inside out (she’s now an expert at using the purple thang to make pointy corners), then I ironed them flat.

She pinned them on the binding in the order she wanted them… And then we both shared the final sewing together. (I think she did a lot more than me at actually).

By the end she was sewing confidently and even removing pins without stopping. I made sure I was using aurifil thread, so that we didn’t have any thread breakages… Just uninterrupted sewing!

She got the feel of what speed was comfortable for her and understood how to correct any mistakes. Although to be honest, the only mistakes she made were when I had left the machine on full speed accidentally!

I love the finished bunting, and we have a few triangles left over to put another short bunting on her pink fireplace.

I think this would be great with some space fabrics for my son too.

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Lady Stitcher on 21/04/2014 at 11:03 said:

Great project for building sewing skills. And the finished product looks great too! 🙂

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- catrinmanel on 21/04/2014 at 11:50 said:
  
  Thanks. And we had fun – bonus!
  
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kleine kleinigkeiten on 21/04/2014 at 19:21 said:

looks a million dollars!

xoxo
blanca

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- catrinmanel on 21/04/2014 at 19:56 said:
  
  Thanks Blanca.
  
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navybluethreads on 21/04/2014 at 20:36 said:

Sounds like a great mother and daughter project to complete together 🙂

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- catrinmanel on 21/04/2014 at 20:54 said:
  
  It was great to see her enjoying sewing as much as I do!
  
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  - navybluethreads on 21/04/2014 at 21:26 said:
    
    🙂 My daughter’s just turned six. We’ve done some basic hand sewing together- sock monkeys- but I haven’t had the confidence to put her on my machine yet, probably because of my own limited confidence but the bunting definitely looks like fun!
  - catrinmanel on 21/04/2014 at 21:29 said:
    
    Go for it. My son is six and he loves it (with a lot of supervision).
Catrin on 22/04/2014 at 20:53 said:

Methu aros news bod Anwen (pump) yn ddigon hen i winio ‘da fi! Mae’n edrych fel cawsoch chi spri arani x

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- catrinmanel on 22/04/2014 at 21:14 said:
  
  Do, gaethon ni amser hyfryd. Mae’n lyfli cael rhannu’r obsesiwn!
  
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laurajane on 29/04/2014 at 19:10 said:

So cute! I was just her age when my Mom started letting me use the machine. It’s great that you’re making it fun for her. She will remember it forever!

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- catrinmanel on 29/04/2014 at 19:28 said:
  
  Thanks Laura Jane, she loves it!
  
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Mona Scott on 01/05/2014 at 01:20 said:

Great Mother/Daughter project. I have two children (25 years apart!) and neither of them has shown much interest in sewing, to my dismay. My oldest daughter (42) inherited my old sewing machine and has tried fitfully to learn on it. She lives in Atlanta and I live in Baltimore so I am not around to help her learn now. My youngest (18) loves to knit and does some hand sewing but has no interest in the sewing machine. I have a new Bernina 750 QE and her comment was “That’s way to complicated to be a sewing machine.” Keep up the sewing lessons. She will be grateful all her life for the skill.

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- catrinmanel on 01/05/2014 at 05:29 said:
  
  Thanks Mona, perhaps your youngest will change- I started off doing much more knitting! X
  
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