Today was one of those dreamy marathon playdate days. We had six hours of peaceful goodness involving one trip to the grocery, a house relocation, swimming and pre-dinner popsicles. Perfection.
Now you know that there is nothing I like more than a kid who wants to sew something and I basically rope every child I can find into making a stuffie of some sort these days. After a year of it, the big boy has grown weary of sewing cute pillows and stuffies, but he occasionally obliges me.
I bought this great new sewing book for kids called Sewing School, by Amie Petronis Plumley & Andria Lisle. It is the perfect sewing book for children because it is…ah hem…FOR kids. It isn’t a fantasy-land of too-difficult yet really pretty projects. It is cute and simple and I just love it. (If I were to write a book, I’d hope it would feel like this–messy and real.)
I showed the kids the Stuffie outlined in Sewing School. It involves drawing a picture on fabric with fabric markers and filling it in with crayon. (We used Sharpies instead of fabric markers because that was all we had lying around.) Next, you use an iron to heat-set the crayon into the fabric and then cut out a back and sew, stuff and finish. In the book, the Stuffie is hand-sewn but we are a bit young for quick hand-sewing around here. So we used the sewing machine to finish it. Our little playdate friend maybe a ladybug stuffie.
And how she LOVES her stuffie. She slept with it and brought it to school today. We named it stuffles. THANK YOU!