This week has been so much fun! We have one more giveaway to celebrate our official launch week, and it’s another cute one.
If you are a girl who wants to learn to sew, or even a mom who has not learned the basics of hand sewing, this book is for you!
Abbie says: “This book is wonderful if you are just learning how to sew. It explains very clearly and shows some important basic techniques. I also think it’s really cute!”
Basic skills like threading needles and sewing on buttons are explained, both with text and pictures. Different stitches are described. There are also fourteen simple hand-sewing projects, all with sweet old-fashioned illustrations.
We hope you win!
As with all of our giveaways this week, our family is the sponsor, using Rafflecopter to administer impartially. Remember, if you are already following in any category, you can still add those points; just enter your details if asked for them. Rafflecopter will choose a winner at midnight on Sunday, December 16, 2012.
This giveaway is open to those over 18. If you are under 18, ask your favorite adult to enter!
I learned to sew by machine in home ec in 8th grade. I’d really like to learn to hand sew, though.
Me too! Seems to be pretty common for our generation.
learned in middle school but not very well.
Very cute book. It would be great to train my girls how to sew.
My Trio of girls would LOVE this book!
My youngest daughter loves to sew. My grandmother taught me when I was little, but I have forgotten so much of it!
I learned to sew from my mama. I really enjoyed hand sewing/stitchery type projects, but never mastered the sewing machine. Now my four year old daughter wants to sew all sorts of things. I could use a good book that explains it well. Thank you for the opportunity!
My mom and my home ec class. I’m definitely not great, though!
What a fun giveaway! My grandmother taught me how to hand quilt. I loved sitting in her lap helping with the little stitches for the quilts she sold. My other grandmother taught me machine sewing, mostly baby doll pillows and blankets but it was so much fun, too.
I learned a small amount from home ec, but it was shortened when I moved during the middle of the year. I really want to learn more and have been trying small projects. But my son is begging for a Jedi Robe and my girls princess dresses…This would be such a fun book with my girls to learn more!
what a perfect place to start. my daughters love to watch me sew and want so much to help.
I was taught by my mom when I was young but then forgot nearly everything. I relearned a lot from her on different vacations and now have mostly taught myself from books, videos and trying things out. Still love to pick my mom’s brain when I am stumped tho! My mom did clothes when we were kids but loves the quilting she does now (and is quite good at it). I really wish I had been interested when my grandmother was alive. She was apparently a wonderful apparel seamstress and could recreate what she saw in the store windows.
Katie, my grandmother was also an amazing seamstress and knitter. I still have some of the things she made for me when I was little, and Abbie was able to wear them when she was little! My grandmother died 31 years ago… her handmade items are part of her legacy.
I’ve taught myself what little I know, but I have a crafty 5 year old who I’d love to learn together with.
I have done SO much learning with and for Abbie. I had loads of gaps coming into adulthood, and it has been really rewarding to learn and embrace handwork.
I only know how to sew a button back on. This is a sad fact considering my mom used to be a seamstress. :p