Yesterday she cleaned off her desk!!!! So it was time to sew. Most people choose to make a pillowcase as their first project. But as I mentioned before, my daughter wants to be a Fashion Designer. And a pillowcase isn't her idea of the perfect sewing project. So I decided to start her off with an infinity scarf.
She chose a Disney fabric because, well, we are all slightly obsessed with Disney in this family. Her fabric is a pinkish/purplish flannel with Aurora and Maleficent and the Dragon. (It was already in my large Disney fabric stash that I'm hoarding at my house so I'm not sure if they still sell it).
After a long conversation about safety and all of that fun stuff, she helped me cut a piece of fabric to make it 12" x 60".
At this point we should have hemmed one side. But we didn't. I had to help her with that later.
She folded the right sides of the fabric together (long ways) and pinned it. (This made the fabric 6" x 60").
It was time to finally break in her sewing machine!!! I chose this project because all she had to do was sew a somewhat straight line.
Here is where I slacked in the pictures. I forgot about my camera! So let me try to explain. After sewing the long side together we turned the fabric right side out to make it a tube. Then I helped her hem one side of the tube. We stuck the edge that wasn't hemmed into the hemmed edge, pinned it and sewed it together.
She is so proud of her new infinity scarf and plans to make lots more! (It's almost a shame we live in Florida and have very little cold weather).
