Hello Friends, I’m finally able to offer on my website many of the kits that I use in my classes. Look for them under Ms Bobbi’s Kits of the Month in the shopping section of my website. Each kit is complete with everything you need to complete the project. If you need something that’s not in the kit like stuffing it will be clearly marked on the kit. All that’s needed is an enthusiastic sewer and a bit of creativity!

Perfect for gift giving for birthdays, holidays, or other special occasions, these sewing kits are great for building skill in both hand and machine sewing. Great for students in my classes as well as homeschoolers and teachers wanting to teach beginning sewing skills in their classes. Wonderful for Girl Scout Troops, 4-H groups, Indian Guides, and play dates! Kits are also a great addition to Makerspaces in libraries, schools, and elementary classrooms. Kits for this Month are Halloween projects.

A Pumpkin Pillow with faces to cut for my young sewers and Pumpkin or Spider Pouches for my older kids. More kits coming as I continue to add to my collection. Enjoy!

Learning to Sew and Loving it!

Dear Sewing Friends,

As I’ve told you before I spend hours each week choosing fabrics, trims, and notions so that each of my students can choose the perfect kit to stitch in class. Often many of you find it hard to choose just one kit to make and would love to sew more but there isn’t enough time in class.

I got to thinking, why don’t I make extra kits and put them on my website? You get to sew more projects and it’s easy peasy for your parents (no trip to the fabric store needed).

Whether it’s hand sewing or machine sewing everything would be included and ready for you to stitch. If it’s a project from Pinterest or the Internet I’ll send you to their site for directions. If it’s from a book, I’ll let you know the title to look for on my site. My designs can include both materials and directions. Yes, this will be so much fun!

I could make some kits with a variety of fabric, some zippers, several spools of thread, some buttons and trims and you could create your own creations! I could even put together kits personalized by you! Homeschoolers could use the kits to learn how to sew. Oh, the possibilities are endless!!!!

So, my first kits will be up at the end of this week and we’ll see how it goes. Here’s to another fun year of sewing!

See you soon,

Ms Bobbi

Hello Sewing Friends!

I’ve been really busy planning, organizing, and making kits for my classes this year! Whew, it’s a big job but totally worth it. I want all my sewing friends to have a wonderful and creative year with me stitching great projects and having fun doing it.

Our first lessons together will be a lesson on basic hand and machine sewing. For some of my friends this will be a review but for others it will be the first time they are learning about sewing. We’ll be using 2 books to help us learn these skills and I wanted to show them to you before our first class.

For hand sewing we will be using “The Amazing Stitching Handbook for Kids” by Kristin Nicholas (C&T Publishing $16.95). Lots of pictures and some great projects which we will stitch several from the book as class projects during the coming year.

For machine sewing we will be using the Second Edition of “The Best Sewing Machine Fun for Kids” by Lynda Milligan and Nancy Smith (C&T Publishing $16.95). I have used this book in my classes for the past 12 years. The new edition has been updated with newer pictures and graphics, 37 projects and activities, and a great reference book for my students to learn how to sew.

These books are on my website if you want your own copy of “The Amazing Stitching Handbook for Kids” and/or “The Best of Sewing Machine Fun for Kids” along with lots of other kid friendly Fun Stitch Studio Books. Just go to www.fascinationinfabrics.com. Click on “Shop” and scroll down to either “Children’s Sewing Books” or click the Banner “Cool Stuff for Kids”.

See you soon!

Ms Bobbi