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Sarah our eight year old daughter will show you how to make a skirt with

Elastic. This is very simple to make!

Here Sarah is cutting out her skirt.We laid the pattern down and used a pen to mark

a line since she is getting used to cutting.(Helps with a boo-boo on your pattern)

Here is where she is laying the pattern down and where she is marking the lines.

Now that the pattern is cut a front and back on the fold.Sarah is now pinning the seams/

There she goes! And now the pinning is done! YEAH Sarah!

Now it is time to sew the seams now here we are using a standard straight stitch.

We used 5/8" to allow her to use the pinking shears for a clean unraveled look.

(If we were to use a serger you would not need to pink or iron open.)

There she goes sewing away!! Good job Sarah!!If your machine has a motor speed,

I use it for our children and I like it on low that way less mistakes are made.

Though really there are no mistakes only learned lessons!! :)

Sarha is done sewing the seams now it is time to use the pinking shears leave

enough to open the seam for irioning...

You did a great job Sarah on cutting!

Now that she has pinked her seams you will now iron the seams open.

Here is Sarah irioning the opening.We are now going to do the hem before the casing

that is our own prefence you can decide for yourself  how you want to do that.

Sarah is now folding over once then over again then pinning it.

After she pins it all around she goes back to the sewing machine to sew the hem.

Start sewing at a seam.

You want to sew right near the edge as you can see here.

She is about done with the hem!

Okay now she is going to sew the top of the skirt which is called a casing for your elastic what you will do is fold over a small 1/4" more less and sew all around starting at the seam.leaving an

opening as you will see below that we marked with the pins.

here is the marking for the opening you want to leave for the Elastic.Sarah started at

the green pin and sewed all around to the red pin tacking both ened by back stitching.

After Sarah sews it all around she is now ready to add the Elastic. I put a safety

pin through the Elastic on the end of it.

Sarah is now threading that Elastic through her casing that she sewed. She is about done!

She has now brought the Elastic through the skirt bring it out from the opening.

Try on the skirt and pull the elastic to fit your waist then hold the Elastic pulling the skirt off and

now you are ready to stitch both pieces together!

Here is Sarah stitching the Elastic together..after stiching it she is now cutting the ends.

Put the Elastic back in the casing and stsich the opening shut and you are done!!!

Here is Sarah in her new skirt!

Great job Sarah!!!!

Momma~

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Abby and Sarah sewing!

There are a few people how have info out there

on making your own shoes! I plan on doing this

very soon and will share with you my experience.

Check out these sites for info on  making them: