Another Sewing Lesson

A few weeks ago, while we were out visiting Heidelbeere, Brombeere shared some time with one of her grandaudghters giving her a sewing lesson.  Recently, she had the opportunity to do the same with Blaubeere's daughter.  Not one to pass up time with her grandkids, Brombeere was more than happy to do so.

This wasn't the young lady's first time sewing, but it was the first time with her grandmother.  So it was cool.  Because it was her first time on her grandma's machine, there was a few minutes of introduction and instruction.  Then she was ready to sew.

 

First thing they did was let her try out some of the stitches, practice stuff.

With a piece of scrap cloth, she played around for a few minutes, getting a feel for the machine.

She was pretty happy with how it turned out.  Grandma's machine has some fun stitches.

Then, with her foot on the "gas", she was ready for something else.

First thing they did was a sleeping bag for a couple of her dolls.  This whole adventure was, after all, to make stuff for the dolls.

The double sleeping bag she made turned out quite well.  She was pleased.

Then they were ready to move on to something a little more involved: a dress.  As with her cousin, she needed to make a pattern first.  So they measured ...

... and cut for a few minutes until she had a nice little dress pattern.  Pretty slick.

Then they got busy sewing. 

It didn't take long to make the dress.  Stringing a piece of elastic through the waistband took a little longer.  

But grandma showed her how to pin the end of the elastic and then work it through the waistband she sewed and pretty quick, she had a nice little knee-length skirt for her doll.  She was pretty happy with how it turned out.

Then they moved on to another skirt, a full length skirt.  

Grandma had brought a bunch of fabric to choose from and she picked some pretty nice, fancy stuff.

before too long she had made another skirt, this one a fancy, flowing, full length skirt.  Not too bad for an afternoon's work.  The sweet little girl was happy, grandma was happy, the dolls were happy; everybody was happy.  A pretty productive afternoon.  Success all around!