Sew Fun!

We have a new past time at our house! I taught Sarah to sew on a button several months ago. She was wanting to know how to sew and since that is about the extent of my knowledge, I taught her everything I know! I gave her an old cloth diaper, some buttons and a needle and thread and 40 buttons later, she is still going strong. Every once in awhile, she will pick up her "button project" and sew for awhile. She has since taught her sister and brother the fine art of button sewing also!

The other day we were in Wal-Mart and I got the bright idea to try to come up with a project that she could actually start and finish that included lots of button-sewing. We looked at material, and buttons, and ribbon, and finally, as we wandered into the scrapbooking section, I saw something that sparked my imagination-- there on the front of a scrapbooking magazine was the cutest scrapbook page that included flowers and ....buttons! So, we decided we would make the "page" into a pillow top and make a pillow for her bed--- perfect! So now, we are learning how to stitch and sew a pillow all by hand (I don't have a sewing machine of course). And oh how I wish I would have paid my mom more attention when she tried to teach me these seemingly boring skills so long ago! It thrills me to have our three children sitting around me at the dining room table....sewing....wierd! Maya patiently and diligently sews button after button on the "button project", Benjamin sews on a button, takes it off, sews it back on again, then takes it off again because his favorite part is cutting the thread, and Sarah and I are working on her pillow! Who knew sewing was "sew" much fun?!

P.S. To our close aunties and Grandmothers: if this trend keeps up, I'll bet I can guess what you will be receiving for Christmas!