Learning about themselves through Fabric. Building Self Esteem and Confidence with every stitch... Having fun designing and creating clothing. Learning about Patterns, design, fitting and construction. To End our Year in the Sewing Room with an AMAZING "Project Kids" Runway Fashion Show/Celebration to Highlight all the Young Sewists hard work! A little bit More.....
1st Sewing Year: Enrolled 10 Students, Sewing on machines that the sewists brought in. Old ones, New ones....Quite the mix....Still we had an AMAZING 1st
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2nd year of Sewing: Enrolled 18 Students, started a 1st year class and 2nd year class
( 1st and 2nd year switch every other Wed.) this was the Beginning of a AMAZING Partnership with Babylock USA!! I have 10 "Grace" sewing machines and an Imagine serger every year for these kids to sew on!! PURE HEAVEN...and the TFL Sewing room at Meeker it Truly BLESSED!
3rd Year Sewing: Enrolled 23 Student
This was the Beginning of a FANTASTIC Partnership with Kwik Sew Pattern Company! To help me design and fine tune my curriculum for the year!
4th Year Sewing: Enrolled 23 students *enrollment does include Boys and Girls*
Privileged and Honored to be invited to "Sewing with Nancy" to be one of her guests for her "Nancy's Corner" segment and got to BRAG on my AMAZING "TFL" Sewists and program!!
5th year sewing: Enrolled 24 Students
6th year of sewing: Enrolled 27 students, 10 Boys and 17 Girls
Excited to see many More years of Growth and Fun with "TFL" sewing!! Thanks to ALL my AMAZING Supporters and CHEERLEADERS on our Sewing Industry for letting me make my Vision Happen!!
** My Why on 5th and 6th Graders ages 10-12. This is a HUGE Turning point in their growing up. With Self Esteem and just finding about who they are. I wanted to Capture them to allow them to know through Fabric they can Achieve Anything. They can SAY NO to things and Give them Confidence when they hit Jr. Hight and High School**