I’m so excited! Why? Because last week 32 “Measure Me Dolls” were born in the first-grade classes at Tower Hill School in Wilmington Delaware. And Ms. Bobbi stitched each one of them with lots of love.

The “Measure Me Doll” project was started by a Tower Hill first grade teacher about 3 years ago. Jill had done the project in another school and wanted to try it at Tower Hill. We fine-tuned the project, eliminating adding birth weight to the babies and found a better pattern that looked more like real babies and we were off and running.

Each doll is the height of the student when they were born. Students choose the fabric (skin tone) and then the dolls are cut by parents and sent to me for stitching. When the dolls are returned, each class spends a day stuffing their dolls, making hair, choosing faces, decorating a onesie, putting on a diaper, and making an identifying necklace with their name for the baby.

After the babies are born, the first-grade classes spend a week doing activities relating to their births and taking care of their babies. It’s a great project and I enjoy stitching the babies every year and listening to the kids tell me stories about when they were little!

Scroll down for pictures! You can click each one to view their full size.

Until next time,

Ms. Bobbi

Hello Sewing Friends!

It’s just about time to start sewing classes with Ms Bobbi and I am just sew excited!

This year I have 3 different classes for you:

“Sewing on the Go” is my class for my students in grades 2 through 6. I’ll have some beginners mixed in with my returning sewers. I have lots of great hand and machine projects for the coming year so be prepared to have lots of sewing fun!

My “Junior Sewing on the Go” is my class for my Kindergarten and First Graders. We’ll have sewing fun mixing a lot of different types of hand sewing projects with a bit of machine sewing here and there to get you interested in the sewing machine.

And finally, my “Sewing Sampler Class” for my 4 and 5 year olds. These students are soooo excited to learn how to sew by hand and they are so proud of everything that they sew. And you never know when a sewing machine lesson might happen in a class or two…We’ll see how goes!

Click Here for Tower Hill Class Schedules and Information

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If you can’t come to my classes in the extended day programs of Tower Hill or Tatnall, just give me a call and we’ll sign you up for private or semi-private lessons in my home or yours! Everyone can join in the fun of sewing!

Learning to sew and loving it!

Ms Bobbi