Sewing with K

 

For her Birthday, my daughter was given her very own sewing machine!  Gramma could not have picked a nicer, more cool gift!  K couldn't wait to use it but there was this that and the other that came up (not the least being my giantly messy sewing room) and we hadn't gotten around to doing a project until now.  Birthday was in May...but better late than never!

 

K wanted to make a t-shirt for a friend's birthday gift.  This was an ambitious project for a first timer so we did it together.  K is a very talented artist and so she did the drawing.  I didn't scan that because it was drawn on Wonder Under and subsequently ironed on and cut out.  Invader Zim is one of K's favorite shows and her fave character from Zim is GIR a funny robot who sometimes dresses like a cute green dog.

 

K did some of the ironing on, cut out scraps and sewed the straight parts.  I ironed all the littler bits together and sewed the curvy parts.  I think it came out great and I think her friend will love it. 

 

One of the things that is the very hardest about teaching someone a skill like sewing is standing back and allowing them to make mistakes.  Especially when you know you can do something better and faster.  But the point is not to get the project done or to do it perfectly, it's to let your student/kid have the experience of doing it and learning from those mistakes.  K can't wait to do her next project and I am very proud of her!!

Some who don't mind a Wet Monday

We've had some tiny visitors on our driveway lately.  I'd have taken a picture of them but they are SO small that you'd be wondering why I've posted a pic of spilled birdseed.  K asked me to draw her a picture of them but ended up drawing her own.  I like her pic better because her snails are holding hands and there's a rainbow in it.  It's all about the details. 

 

Speaking of details, it's time for Halloween Costume time again.  K's new favorite cartoon is Invader Zim (which is not on any longer but thanks to Netflix a whole new generation of kids can enjoy its quirky humor and ask their moms to make them a themed costume) and her favorite character on that show is is GIR.

There are two versions of GIR, one as a silver-ish robot with blue eyes, the second is when he wears a green zip-up dog costume.  Unable to decide which she liked better, K asked me to design and make a costume that was both. Above is part 1.  Below is what I'm working on.

 

 This is ambitious I know as the only costumes I've seen are ones that are of the green dog.  I could've said no but truthfully, I want to see if I can do it.  Below are some sketches and ideas for the roboty part. 

 

 

Stay tuned!

 

 

So here it is, the whole GIR costume all together.  I should have had her turn sideways so the dog-suit hood was visible but my camera was dying (of course.)  There was also a large disagreement as to whether GIR should have hair sticking out of the bottom of his head.