First Post of the Day
To my surprise, Lukie showed up with a fellow tailor-ette in tow. Mila! (And Gus, but I knew he was coming so he could play with Pepper and Tammo.)
Lukie was so proud of his "24 colors and one of them GOLD and three sharp things" and so we spent a few minutes admiring those before freeing them from the package.
Mila wanted to make a mini doll blanket for a doll and agreed with Lukie that she needed to learn some basic hand sewing stitches.
First lesson? Threading the needle and then a running stitch.
That decently accomplished, we moved on to making something. Lukie chose a little pillow.
And he meant little! I suggested a 4" x 4" pillow, but he asked for a 2" x 2".
Mila and Lukie were really focused on their projects. I helped rethread needles occasionally and untangled and couple of thread lines, but they did all the work.
Lukie was so proud of his thread kit; see how he has lined all the spools up on my sewing table so we can see them and choose a color?
When we had visited the battlefield last week, we'd gone into the museum gift shop and I'd bought each child a memento. Mila had chosen a bone trinket box and the mini doll.
The vision of her completed blanket was not matching what the blanket was actually looking like.
Part of the problem was that I had forgotten to have her turn and press the blanket after she'd stitched the sides. We will fix that at our next lesson.
Lukie stuffed his pillow and then stitched the opening closed and his pillow was done.
He couldn't wait to show it to his dad...
... who tried it out and declared it to be very soft and would be comfy under his ear that night. LOL
Mila was disappointed but I have some ideas in mind so that she will feel more successful at our next sewing lesson.
Stay 'tooned!
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