Last week five girls arrived at my house to pick out fabric and kick off a TYM first, Sewing 101.
Memories of having to make the tackiest wrap skirt for my first sewing endeavor when I was a girl flooded my mind as I planning for this class. Because I never, not even once, was proud of or even considered wearing that horrid skirt, there was no wrap skirt in sight over here.
Instead, we went with Heather Ross’s adorable smocked dress project, which we adapted to become a shirt, the clothing item requested by the girls themselves. When I was fabric shopping, I tried to notice what girls their age loved to wear and buy from the eye of an eight or nine year old New York girl. Because, seriously? A wrap skirt made from fabric remnants was not going to cut it with these girls. Thank goodness.
Didn’t they do an amazing job? The most beautiful thing about teaching this class was that we had fun. I kept looking around noticing two things on their faces: smiles when they were working and smiles when they were done.
Miss D and Miss C, pictured above, wore their newly crafted smocked tops to school this Monday, styled with an amazing eye, I’m sure.
What have you been noticing?
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