Sewing Rotation Wish List

Sewing Rotation Classes are currently in need of the following items:

• Fabric Scissors: For little fingers and big ones too and for the lefties. (Please let me know if you would like to donate lefty scissors, since we don’t need too many, we mainly need lefty scissors for the primary grades)  Fiskars scissors are the best kind especially for the beginning cutters in the primary levels. Also I think we can sharpen the ones we have for the older kids if someone would like to arrange for that, however we need them in our hands on Mondays, Tuesdays,  and Wednesdays.

• Thread: In many colors for machine sewing as well as embroidery thread on spools.

• Buttons: Large and medium sized buttons in bright colors.

• Needles: Universal sewing machine needles size 14 and 16 as well as tapestry needles with large eyes and a rounded not so sharp point.

• Socks: Clean used socks that have lost their other half are perfect, even if they have some holes. Argyle, stripped, polka dotted, black, lime green, white, short, long, any sock that can be transformed into a sock friend

• Stuffed Animals: Lets turn the old into something new! We will be needing small and medium stuffed animals to be reassembled into unimaginable new mutant creatures.

• Stuffing: We need lots of this stuff for stuffing our unique creations and pillows.

• T-Shirts: Clean out those T-shirts you and the kids are no longer wearing or fun ones you might come up upon while out thrifting. The kids will get to use the T-shits to makes skirts, dresses, “franken” T’s, bags, scarves, you name it!

• Sewing Machines: As of now we have 7 working machines. With 17 students in each rotation, it would be supper sweet to have 8-9 machines in the classroom. This would mean I could have two children on each machine working in pairs and therefor increasing their productivity, while minimizing the time the kids would have to wait to use the machine.  Also having a few more will help at times when we need to get one or a few serviced. This is a SUPER wish though, we have come a long way from the day when we only had two machines and seven is definitely manageable!

Please check back as I might add new wishes or make changes to the ones up already.

Thank you all for your contributions to our Sewing Classes, it is greatly appreciated!

Krystina