I spent a lovely afternoon with the sewing machine and a very clever 11 year old. My friend's daughter celebrated her birthday a couple of weeks ago. She is a very crafty girl and I thought a sewing afternoon in leu of a wrapped gift could be on the cards. We took a trip to the fabric store picked up some cute cupcake fabric (and a couple of fun prints for me) and headed home for an afternoon of sewing.
I found this cute reversible purse pattern and tutorial on Martha's website. This proved to be the perfect project. With minimal assistance, she managed to put the whole thing together herself. Like I said, she is very clever.
I hope my girls love to craft as much as this one when they get older because an afternoon sitting and sewing with them in the future sounds dreamy. Thank you for a lovely afternoon Telea.
What a brilliant DIL. But then she is Canadian and married to a Stralian.
NCG
Posted by: NCG | 04/18/2010 at 12:42 AM
She did a great job!! :) It is cute!
Posted by: Katy | 02/16/2010 at 02:00 AM
what a beautiful bag! and i completely agree - i hope that when i have daughters they'll enjoy sewing and crafting!
Posted by: s + b | 02/15/2010 at 05:21 PM
What a brilliant gift - skills, time and you come away with a bag - lovely.
Posted by: Amy | 02/14/2010 at 09:42 PM