Hestia Homeschool for Young Wild Women

Last week the girl's started their learning to sew class...we met this time at Julianne's house.  The teacher did not show up. Luckily we had the intrepid self-taught Laura, who whipped out her serger (so to speak) and taught the girls how to use a serger to sew a seam to keep the sides from enraveling.  I had never seen a serger before. It was fascinating, although it did look rather like a medieval torture device.

Laura spent much of the time trying to get the other kids' machines to work.  Thank God she was there, because Julianne and I did not know anything about what to do.

My girls had very carefully selected perhaps the most expensive material possible for their projects, which was to sew tote bags. (The embellishments were the killers). Still, once they have the technique down we are planning on making lots of them to use at the grocery and other places to avoid wasting paper and adding plastic to the land fills.

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Comment from my78novata - 2/21/06 10:31 PM

  

Mary-Beth (my wife) would love to have a serger. The old Bernina - sewing machine- has been busy every night as she makes a dinosaur quilt for our grandson Vincent's 4th birthday
Comment from thekralikkid - 2/21/06 6:48 PM

Laura's

version of events can be found on her blog at:

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• #1 Comment from randlprysock 
  11/5/06 10:27 PM | Permalink

  So nice to find your journal!!  I will add you happily to my private journal.  I'm a mom and love to sew.  I think home schooling is awesome!  The girls are learning lots of great things!  
  Lisa
  
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