grannypat7925

I remember starting with punched cards and yarn. It all progressed up hill from there. Mom was very particular about anybody using her treadle machine becuz the bobbin was tricky, but she finally allowed it after sewing class in Jr. High. My girls started at about 7 or 8 with sewing Barbie clothes. They are all excellent seamstresses now but so far none have shown an interest in quilting. Maybe later when I leave them all my stash LOL.

QuiltingrandmafromMi

My daughter was 10 when she made her first quilt,embroidery painted state birds and sewn them in a scrappy quilt.

mjsylvstr

I found that when they want to learn is the only time......

before they do, it's a lost cause.

ladydi64

Depends on the childs dexterity can she hold a needle and thread I started when I was 5, my mother was a seamstress and when I was in Jr High I was way ahead of the class in Home Economics. By High School I was helping the teacher teach the class. I was making prown dresses for the girls that could not afford to buy one.

Lostn51

She is so adorable and I am glad she is loving "Barbara"! And I loved the photos of her opening it up. That is one of my favorite machines I ever painted.

Billy

Sharonsews

I know of a 9 year old girl that has made several things in her local library. She is a dream to teach and is eager to learn. A friend taught her 8 year old to sew, knit and crochet. This girl is multi-talented. My son started at 5 helping me in the sewing room picking up pieces, stepping on the "petal" lightly, and then sewed his first pieced top at 8.

KarenBarnes

Even if they don't make the sewing cards you can use plastic canvas and yarn! I think teaching young children depends upon their communication skills and the patience of the adult! I'm sorry to say that mine didn't get any instruction until they were leaving home and then it was basics, button, hem, etc. Even then they still use duct tape!

lynnie

i started at 3 sewing buttons on a pc of fabric. at 7 started quilting. i'm 51 now, made over 325 quilts, and still going strong.
good luck

Butterflyblue

I started teaching my daughter at 4 years old with a blunt needle and yarn on plastic canvas. Then hand embroidery, then a little hand piecing. She's almost five, but I won't let her use my machine yet because I know she is too easily distracted to sew and pay strict attention to where her fingers are in relation to the needle.

Bye_the_Bye

When I was 4 or 5 my grandmother guided me making tea towels and potholders out of feed sacks on her old Singer treadle machine. A few years later, my mother gave me some stamped cross-stitch and a little lesson in embroidery. I joined a 4-H club and I learned more about sewing clothing. I think that if the seeds are sewn at an age when a child can recall it later in life then the child will draw upon that experience when the time comes that her fingers get a little itchy for an outlet to her creativity.