{"id":10663,"date":"2011-01-18T22:19:14","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T03:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/?p=10663"},"modified":"2012-07-23T22:33:34","modified_gmt":"2012-07-24T02:33:34","slug":"kids-sew-jumpers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/18\/kids-sew-jumpers\/","title":{"rendered":"Kids Sew Jumpers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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6 year-old Kennedy hard at work in her Mimi’s sweat shop<\/p><\/div>\n

Few\u00c2\u00a0activities delight a sewing Nana more than sewing with a grandchild.\u00c2\u00a0 Of course, we encourage this interest in all of our grandchildren, but some take to\u00c2\u00a0it like the proverbial duck to water.<\/p>\n

Six\u00c2\u00a0year old Kennedy is one of those ducks.\u00c2\u00a0 Not only does her mother sew\u00c2\u00a0fabulous things for\u00c2\u00a0 her, but her grandmother, Judy\u00c2\u00a0Day, is an extremely accomplished “sewist” who sews almost around the clock for her three grandchildren.\u00c2\u00a0 Kennedy has reaped the benefits of matriarchal stitchers and observed that it is fun.<\/p>\n

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The little Snow Princess with her doll–doesn’t she look proud?<\/p><\/div>\n

This summer, she and her cousin Courtney spent time with their grandparents and loved working\u00c2\u00a0 in the sewing room.\u00c2\u00a0 The girls made matching sundresses and were thrilled with the results.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0( The proud six-year old cousins will be featured with their sundresses in a later post.)<\/p>\n

Recently,\u00c2\u00a0Kennedy\u00c2\u00a0spent a week with\u00c2\u00a0 “Mimi” and “Papa” and was more than eager to tackle another project or two.<\/p>\n

Careful planning and extensive preparations\u00c2\u00a0are critical when sewing with children.\u00c2\u00a0 Having years of experience teaching sewing classes,\u00c2\u00a0 Judy knew how to guarantee her little granddaughter’s success.<\/p>\n

Her choice of\u00c2\u00a0materials and pattern were suitable\u00c2\u00a0for Kennedy’s sewing skills. Polar fleece is a forgiving fabric and\u00c2\u00a0the\u00c2\u00a0jumper pattern was the quick and easy Lucy<\/em> from Children’s Corner.<\/p>\n

For American Girls doll Rebecca Judy drafted a similar style\u00c2\u00a0using\u00c2\u00a0a bodice pattern from Martha’s Doll Dressing<\/em> book.\u00c2\u00a0 It features patterns for dolls 13″ -19″.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Note the icy blue hairbows for both Kennedy and her doll. Judy makes a matching bow for each outfit.<\/p><\/div>\n

Judy had Kennedy first sew each step on her\u00c2\u00a0doll \u00c2\u00a0jumper and then move on to own full size garment.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Sewing the jumpers in parallel, Kennedy was able to\u00c2\u00a0practice and grasp the concept\u00c2\u00a0while sewing the\u00c2\u00a0doll-sized\u00c2\u00a0version of her jumper.<\/p>\n

The snowflake embroidery designs are from Let it Snow<\/em> collection from Planet Applique www.planetapplique.com<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0The designs were, of course, too large for the doll jumper.\u00c2\u00a0 So Judy, a stickler for detail, redrew them in Babylock’s Masterworks II, created the applique, then filled it with stitches to make the 1 inch filled flakes. Of course, Rebecca’s jumper sported a monogram, just like Kennedy’s.\u00c2\u00a0The matching snowflake buttons are the kind of little extra that tickles a little girl.<\/p>\n

Time and time again, the bio of a well-known designer lists\u00c2\u00a0her grandmother as her first sewing teacher.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Time spent\u00c2\u00a0teaching children to\u00c2\u00a0sew is time well spent, on so many levels.\u00c2\u00a0 Not only is this quality time for teacher and student, establishing rapport at this tender age\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0keeps the door open for discussion of other important issues facing today’s children.<\/p>\n

That sounds really preachy.\u00c2\u00a0 But the truth is that sewing with children is just plain fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Few\u00c2\u00a0activities delight a sewing Nana more than sewing with a grandchild.\u00c2\u00a0 Of course, we encourage this interest in all of our grandchildren, but some take to\u00c2\u00a0it like the proverbial duck to water. Six\u00c2\u00a0year old Kennedy is one of those ducks.\u00c2\u00a0 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,30,8,62,42,18,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10663"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10663"}],"version-history":[{"count":43,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23750,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10663\/revisions\/23750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}