Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts

Saturday, December 25, 2010

Christmas presents

Ruth has really enjoyed making Christmas presents for her sisters this year. First we made the teddy "bean bag" for Hannah. Ruth was given one of these for her birthday and so we used that as the idea for Hannah's. I did not get photo through the process but Ruth really enjoyed sitting on my lap and doing the sewing. We sewed all the pieces on with the machine and she would sit and push the button to make the needle go up and down and also lift the foot when we needed to shift the material. We had so much fun with it.
We decided to go for a cat for Rachel (who loves cats). So I found a pattern on line and Ruth cut that out. I transferred the lines onto the material and then Ruth helped me sew the picture onto the material.
We sewed the two pieces together (the wrong way around) and then Ruth turned it the right way around (hiding all the stitching inside).
Fill with wheat and stitch closed.
Rachel and Hannah were thrilled with their presents.

Friday, December 10, 2010

Christmas decorations

Placing the pieces right side together and pinning.
Ruth was really excited about the sewing project we started. Julia had given us this lovely material and the idea of Christmas decorations and Ruth learnt so much through this project.
Working carefully with pins. She did a good job.
Rachel did the sewing on the machine and Ruth helped
me over lock the edges.
Ruth had tacked a few of them together
and so she took that sticking out now.
Then the tricky part - turning them the right way around.
Getting her fingers into the corners.
Then stuffing them.
Some red ribbon to hang them by.
Rachel sewed them closed on the machine.
They look lovely. This is the front.



And pretty bright colours on the back.

Helping Rachel wrap the present. This one is for
their ballet teacher.




Monday, December 6, 2010

Preschool Nativity Pack

I printed this Preschool nativity Pack off the Internet yesterday and Ruth and Hannah had a lot of fun with these pages this morning.
Ruth said "This is easy" :-)

"Jesus starts with ....."

And then the letters on her own. Good job Ruth.