Little Sewing

He has a love of gadgets that often has me telling people that someday, perhaps, he'll be an engineer. He fiddles with gears and tries to figure out how things work. So it's no surprise that he took an interest in the little sewing machine I had stashed away in my studio space. It was just his size. He played with the pedal and the buttons on it for quite a while before I let him work with me on a small project.



When I asked if he wanted to make a pillow, his face lit up. To be honest, I wasn't even sure if the little machine worked. We gave it a shot anyway. It made it most of the way before it jammed up pretty good on us. It seems like a simple task - a basic pillow - but to the boy, it meant the world. I was sharing a love of mine with him. That meant the world to me!



We sat together and we sewed this little pillow. We finished it up on my real machine upstairs. He helped me stuff it and pin it closed. This was his project - his first sewing project. Can you tell how proud he is?