Coming Soon to the Blog: Sew in Style Summer Sewing Club

Through all the busy end-of-year stuff, I’ve been getting organized and planning the details for this summer’s Sew in Style Sewing Club! It’s an online sewing club for kids of all ages who are learning to sew using the book Sew in Style! It should be super fun!

This year we have more sponsors for some beautiful prize packages! So far: Timeless Treasures, Riley Blake, RJR, and Dear Stella will be providing some wonderful fabric to add to the packages! All prize packages will include some fun trims to help kids get creative. All fabric will be quilt shop quality!

✿ Sew or make any project from the book: Sew in Style-Make Your Own Doll Clothes
✿ Share the photo with us*
✿ Get entered into a weekly drawing for great prizes
✿ Have fun!

✿ Sew in Style Sewing Club runs from June 15-Aug 15
✿ Drawings will be on Mondays and announced in the evening when I get home from teaching sewing at local summer camps.

Some answers for possible questions that you may have:

✿ Kids don’t have to make the project all by themselves. Kids can sew with help. A grown-up can do any part of the project to help kids complete the project, like cutting it out, doing the pressing, or a tricky seam here and there.

✿ The main objectives: get kids sewing and having fun!

✿ Projects are not meant to be perfect. If your child is concerned, just don’t take a close-up photo. But in my experiences with teaching kids to sew, they usually focus on the fact that they made it! Not the little imperfections! (that’s more of a grown-up thing) Remember: it’s the process, the journey, that’s important. The more they sew, the easier it will become and the better the projects look over time and with practice.

✿ 1 photo = 1 entry (there’s no limit to how many photos a child can send in or post, but each photo must be of a unique project)

✿ Photos can be emailed to me (Erin [at] AveryLaneSewing [dot] com) or posted on the AveryLaneDesigns facebook page

✿ Posting or emailing a photo means that you consent to me posting the photo online (faces will be cropped out) on social media and this blog

✿ Yes, kids can start sewing now! There’s no need to wait until June 15.

✿ No, kids don’t have to participate every week. Just when they have time! It’s okay to skip a few weeks and send in photos when she has completed a project from Sew in Style.

✿ Yes, kids can be sewing at a sewing camp, at a quilt shop — or at home, or at a friend’s house, with Grandma or an Aunt! It doesn’t matter where, just that the child did some of the sewing!

✿ Prize Packages each week include any combination of: fat quarter bundles, half hard cuts, trims, and notions. Fabrics are quilt shop quality and small scale prints.

✿ Some prize fabric will be provided by sponsors. Sponsors so far are Dear Stella,  RJR Fabrics, Timeless Treasures, and Riley Blake –Thank you!!

✿ Winners will be announced on the blog and facebook each week.

✿ Each week we start over for the entries in the drawings. The week a child posts or emails a photo is the week that she/he will be entered into a drawing.

✿ Prizes open to US addresses only

✿ Sew in Style – Make Your Own Doll Clothes is available at JoAnn’s (think 40% off coupon), Beverely’s (can use coupon there as well!), Hobby Lobby, and at most book stores and quilt shops.

✿ Online: Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Nancy’s Notions, C&T Publishing website (the eBook is great! Bonnie from Fishsticks Designs did a great review on her blog of how user friendly the ebook version is!) and signed copies through my Etsy shop.

*photos may be shared on the Avery Lane Sewing Blog, as well as other social media. Kids faces will be cropped out. Please include the child’s first name and first initial of her last name, for example: Erin H. made this!

It sounds more complicated than it is. Just sew and share your projects–that’s all. Post any questions either here or on the facebook page https://www.facebook.com/events/903061349759626/ and  I will try to answer quickly 🙂

And by the way, all the projects shown in this post were projects made by kids 🙂 Their ages ranged from 7 years old to 12 years old. Don’t they all look amazing!?!

Happy Sewing!