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Arden and I are back with Lesson 4 of Tiny Sewists: Teaching Kids to Sew!  This is a series I’m sharing as I teach my four year old daughter Arden to sew.  Be sure to review the first lessons on setup and safety, getting familiar with the machine, and practicing with a needle. In the {…Continue Reading}

Welcome to Lesson 3 of Tiny Sewists: Teaching Kids to Sew!  If you’re just joining, this is a series I’m sharing as I teach my four year old daughter Arden to sew.  Be sure to review the first lessons on setup and safety, and getting familiar with the machine. Up until this point, we’ve been {…Continue Reading}

If you’re just joining this series on teaching your child to sew, please review the first lesson on setup and safety first. This lesson focuses on a few skills: raising and lowering the presser foot to begin sewing “driving” the machine with the foot pedal guiding the fabric with hands to the sides; away from {…Continue Reading}

Arden has been asking to learn to sew for a while, so I decided to take that idea and run with it by getting her a sewing machine of her own for Christmas.  With her own machine, the next obvious step is learning to sew!  I thought it would be fun to share my process {…Continue Reading}