Teaching the Kids to Sew...for Fun and Necessity
I have always sewn. Both of my parents sew and I can't remember a time that I didn't have a sewing machine. Most of the time I just make dresses for my daughter. She loves dresses made out of fun patterns and we always have a good time going to the fabric store and looking for ones that jump out at us. When the recommendations came out regarding cloth face masks on Friday from the CDC, it was time to take the sewing machine out again. I don't sew often enough that I have a lot of fabric lying around so I pulled together a couple of scraps left over from dresses and my husband donated a couple of old dress shirts for the linings. The kids loved the idea of helping to make something for the whole family and some friends. There are so many different mask patterns out there and so I looked to find one that I thought would work for our family and settled on this one . I wanted them each to help out on the masks even a little bit so that w...