She came to me with the dreaded b-o-r-e-d word (I've told her I don't want to hear that she's bored, so now she does it in sign language. Smarty pants.) I handed her a big square of white cotton and told her to draw a nice picture on it with crayons. She disappeared and returned twenty minutes later with a pretty good likeness of her stuffed cat. She had already planned the buttons for eyes and everything. First she heat-set the crayon (with supervision, of course). Then she got out her little sewing kit and embroidered the nose all by herself too. The only thing I did was knot the thread once it was on the needle - she did the threading, stitching, and tied it off herself when she was done. Pretty good, hey? How many six year olds do you now that can 'satin stitch' a kitty nose on their own? She's got buttons down pat too.
I suggested a pillow as a final product and she was off and running again. Picked out crazy bright pink for the back. Cut it herself, even remembering to measure first. :) Then, I rocked her world by letting her sew it together on my machine. She even got to use the 'gas pedal'. She has guided the fabric through the presser foot before while on my lap but I've never let her use the foot pedal. I thought she enjoyed it, but I didn't know what a big deal it was until later that day when Daddy came home from work and both girls tore off to the back door to tell him that 'Mommy let Leah DRIVE the sewing machine ALL BY HERSELF'.
Then she stuffed it and whipstitched the opening closed on her own. Not bad! At this rate she'll be passing me up in sewing skills by the time she reaches high school!
More on what I'm up to later this week.
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