Greetings,
During a recent trip to Geelong with my daughter and grandchildren, I provided the two older children with a simple stitchery to do. They took to it with amazing enthusiasm and we spent several afternoons sitting around and stitching. They needed help threading needles etc but were able to handle the backstitch remarkably well. Now back home we are in the process of turning their stitcheries into cushions. I am doing the cutting but they are doing the sewing on the machine. I gave my nine year old granddaughter a full sized adult machine for Christmas and she has mastered it with ease. She loves to practise using the various different stitches and has already made three cushions for family members.
I plan to produce patterns for some simple stitcheries for children and will put them on this website when done. However they can also just use a simple drawing of their own like my 11 year old grandson did. He had a terrific drawing of a penguin so he used that for his stitcheries. I'll also publish photos of their finished cushions. They are very proud of their achievements.
I highly recommend doing something like this with children as it is an excellent skill for them to learn and a pleasant activity to share with them. As a primary school teacher I always do sewing in my classroom and have been know to have big year 6 boys coming to a lunchtime class with great enthusiasm.
Until next time,
Robyn
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