It's July....crunch time for 4-H projects
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This Friday is Fashion Revue. For those of you who are unfamiliar with 4-H, this is an event in which the 4-Her makes a clothing item and then models the item with coordinating accessories in front of a judge. Back in my day this provided "Toddler and Tiara" type of competition amongst as Johnson County 4-Hers. Not kidding. Things aren't as ugly around here.
While I'm having flashbacks and hotflashes about midnight sewing sessions to finish the clothing projects, I thought I'd procrastinate a bit more and show you the project that #1 completed last week.
We found this cute little raggedy camp stool at Habitat for a dollar.
#1 sanded the legs to get the grime off and then rubbed on a coat or two of clear wax.
Then he made a new seat out of vintage cowboy canvas using the old seat as a pattern.
Notice the tape on the machine? This is a life saver when teaching kids how to sew. Place the tape where the seem allowance needs to be and the child has all kinds of room to keep the edge even with the tape and the seem allowance will be consistent (best case scenario).
He covered the nails with decorative vintage looking nailheads.
Took him about three hours from start to finish to complete.
That's excluding the we-(Mom and #1) need-a-break-from-eachother moments. Everyone has these when working with their kids, right?
Step away...just step away.
It can hold up to 50 pounds...
(probably more - but we won't test that until after Achievement Days.)
Now I'm ready to head back to the sewing room with #2.
Becky
2 comments:
I'm totally sending my kids to your house for their projects. I came up with the idea at the last horse show that upon arrival, all kid names go into a hat and each parent draws a new kid out. You are responsible for that kid all day. I TOTALLY think this would work for all parties involved and all projects at hand. Al is doing a vintage step stool for woodworking. We bought lumber. That's about as far as we got! What project is #1's stool? Tell him it's VERY cute!!
Some of the parents around here had the same idea! I think it's brilliant. We are much nicer to other peoples' kids - unless they're a buncha knotheads! He's entering this in "remake your furniture" or something like that. Best wishes on the stool and your mother-daughter relationship upon completion.
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