{"id":1785,"date":"2008-09-30T14:41:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-30T18:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=1785"},"modified":"2008-09-30T14:41:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-30T18:41:00","slug":"basic-sewing-ideas-for-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=1785","title":{"rendered":"Basic sewing ideas for kids?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.craftster.org\/pictures\/showphoto.php?photo=147700\" target=\"blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.craftster.org\/pictures\/data\/500\/giselle_2.jpg\" height=\"175\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"right\"><\/a><br \/>\nEmily wants to sew her own dress, like Giselle did when she cut up Robert&#8217;s curtains and made a beautiful gown in Enchanted.  Picture is at right.  She&#8217;s mentioned it several times over several days, so I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s entirely a whim, so I&#8217;m willing to pursue this.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re not cutting up my curtains, and I&#8217;m not capable of making a dress that doesn&#8217;t look like it was stitched by a drunken seal.  Therefore, I&#8217;m looking for very basic patterns suitable for a child&#8217;s first sewing project.  Clothing would be preferable, but that&#8217;s not critical.  I have a sewing machine, fabric, thread, pins, needles, scissors, chalk, and assorted other tools already. Anything she can learn a little about sewing from would be good.  Ideas for projects, anyone?<br \/>\n<br clear=all><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emily wants to sew her own dress, like Giselle did when she cut up Robert&#8217;s curtains and made a beautiful gown in Enchanted. Picture is at right. She&#8217;s mentioned it several times over several days, so I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s entirely a whim, so I&#8217;m willing to pursue this. We&#8217;re not cutting up my curtains, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[87],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}