About the Project

This project will be a basic sewing club that meets after school to teach 9-11 year old kids sewing skills. We will begin with learning hand sewing stiches and practice small projects of stuffed monsters. After they master this, we will move to machine skills. Students will have to demonstrate machine knowledge and basic threading and bobbin winding skills before starting the sewing of projects. While studying these skills, we will introduce fabric, texture and color knowledge to help them start to see how the combination of fabric they choose will enhance the esthetics of their finished projects. The first charity we will sew for is Ryan’s Case for Smiles, a non-profit that takes thematic, fun, and colorful cases to children in the hospital. There are actually 14 non-profit charities that will accept our pillow cases, so we will have lots to keep us busy! Lastly, students will get to keep one pillow case they make to remember their time in Sewing Seeds of Kindness and all the smiles they promoted through sharing their new-found talent. “The first thing I ever sewed” is a big deal to sewists, so it is important they get to take a memento with them.