Again, with the instructables! I can’t help it. Whenever they have a sewing-related contest, I feel a need to make an instructable and enter. This contest was Kids Crafts—always fun—so the Beebs and I worked together on a tossable dodecadedron, which is a 12-sided rhombus, which is what you get if you sew pentagons together at all their sides. I chose this shape because one of Eva’s friends brought home a school project that did this with paper (and had Abe Lincoln facts on each side) and we thought it looked neat.
The cool thing that Eva got to do on this project was to decorate the fabric (actually interfacing) with free motion embroidery before we cut it. It was great for her because she (understandably) gets frustrated trying to keep a seam allowance while learning how to operate a sewing machine at the same time. My hope is that projects like this will help her get comfy with the sewing machine so that she learns to love it and not curse it.
The link to the actual instructable is here: Sew a Dodecahedron.
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This IS super cool!
Rima
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I really like this. About teaching your daughter to run the machine, I learned to have the kids practice on a sheet of notebook paper without thread, then with so they could get the hang of following the line & sewing straight. Then graduate. I’ve taught a few kids, I find pj shorts make a great first project followed by a shaggy quilt because the seam allowances are huge and you can fudge them a bit.
Love the project!