Kids' Sewing Workshop

When our granddaughter was getting her first sewing machine I purchased a pattern. After giving it some thought I knew the pattern would be to difficult. This book was loaded with projects, templates, and patterns. Step by step instructions. Great book.

She loved it

Wonderful! Iam using this to teach my grands how to sew. Mostly easy ideas they want to make. But some are a bit dated.

I bought this book for my next door neighbor 's nine year old birthday. She is very interested in learning ing to sew and craft.

Kids' Sewing Workshop is a tutorial and technique guide by Karine Thiboult-Demessence. Released 5th March 2024 by Fox Chapel on their Landauer imprint, it's 96 pages and available in paperback and ebook formats.This is an accessible and fun book aimed at tweens/beginning sewists filled with cool tutorial projects. There are 26 projects in the book, including personal clothing items, crafts pieces like a change purse, and soft furnishings.The projects are attractive and fun, but some will either need an advanced beginner who has some experience with the techniques or access to a teacher/guide/facilitator.The photography throughout is clear and high quality.Four stars. It would be a good choice for public or school library acquisition, home use, makers/activity groups, scouting, etc.

This instructional book is geared towards girls who are interested in sewing their own clothes, accessories, and room decor, but even though the book initially sounds like it will be beginner-appropriate, this is only for girls who are already very experienced seamstresses, or who have skilled adults at hand to help them.The introductory matter is very brief, and it doesn't get into the kind of basic instruction I would expect from a book like this. Even books geared towards adults usually have several pages or a couple early chapters about sewing fundamentals, explaining basic techniques. This one assumes prior knowledge and experience.The projects are fairly complicated. They involve machine sewing, hand-sewing, and general crafts, and even though there are difficulty ratings, the projects aren't organized by the ratings. The projects also have very limited instructions and diagrams, and needed far more step-by-step details and images to help children follow along. The projects can seem deceptively simple to someone who's just glancing through the instructions, since there are only a handful of steps for each one, but there are lots of hidden steps that aren't spelled out or explained.Although this book has a unisex title, the projects are almost all stereotypically feminine, with girls' clothing and lots of pink, frilly, cutesy stuff. I think this should have a gender-specific title, and I would have appreciated greater variation in colors and styles for girls with different tastes. Of course, kids can make these projects with whatever colors and prints they want, but the styles are still fairly limiting, and the project images in the book will only appeal to girls who share the very feminine aesthetic. Some greater variety would have been nice.Because this book assumes a lot of prior knowledge and doesn't adequately break down the steps involved in each project, I would only recommend this to girls who are already very experienced with sewing, or who have family members who will be helping them every step of the way. This book can be great for young girls who like feminine designs and want to level up their existing sewing skills, but if someone is just getting started with sewing or prefers a different aesthetic, this is not the book for them.