It Happened- She Sewed!!

If you’ve been a long time blog reader, you know we have five kids…two boys and three girls.  Of the kids…Kalissa is the one who doesn’t sew.  The boys do utility sewing like patching…not quilting but they do sew.

Kalissa can but has claimed she isn’t interested in sewing or quilting.  Well she wanted some pillows.  She was a the thrift store and found some pillow forms and this black and white plaid flannel.  She decided she was going to sew pillows.  She doesn’t have a sewing machine so she came over to use mine.

She asked me how to do it…I told her.  She put the things out on the table and cut the two pieces…put them right side together…pinned (LOTS) and then went up and sewed.  She came back down, turned it right side out and tested the size, to big.  She went back up, sewed again and it was perfect.

I think she shocked herself!

When s

he came down from sewing the seam and said, “I remember everything you ever told me…
Pull (hold) the tails (thread tails out)
And needle down
And CLIP YOUR THREADS
and to always backstitch at the beginning and then end

She did listen!!!

I then told her…that was good but you aren’t really done yet.  You need to hand stitch the opening closed.  I told her to pin the opening closed.  She put the pins in vertical rather than horizontal.  I pinned it and then she could see the right was to pin.  Then I showed her how to sew it shut so her stitches didn’t show.  She did pretty good.

Here she is hard at work…..I told her it would get easier the more she sewed or stitched.

I also told her this would be something good to do if Carver was needing her to be quiet so he could nap.

It took two hours but she got THREE pillows made.  I won’t label her as a crafter/sewer yet but…there is hope.

I do really appreciate that even though she doesn’t typically sew, she is still super supportive of any sewing or crafting the rest of us do.  She’s great like that!

I do admit that while I slightly had her attention, I showed her an upcoming fabric line that has this panel in it.

You can’t see it very well in the picture.  It has the US on it and all the names of the states are written in the state.  I think she would LOVE pillows made out of this…so, I planted a seed.  Maybe it will grow….maybe not.  Either way, sewer or non sewer, she’s my gal and I love her just the way she is.  I’m actually really impressed with her pillows.  When she showed me the stuff and said she was going to make them, I figured I’d end up making them.  She did good….still impressing her momma.