Sewing Machine Practice (Junior High School)

Little Brother is in ninth grade and is taking high school entrance exams. While cleaning his room for him, I found this. It is a cloth practice sheet from his seventh grade sewing class. He had to follow these lines on a sewing machine. The white thread he used doesn't show up in this photo. Click to enlarge the photo.

Anyway, on the far left, he folded over the cloth and sewed it following a straight line. Next to that, he had to go down a straight line and then make two corners and continue upward. Click on the label below for other posts about school sewing projects.

Seventh Grade Sewing Projects

Little Brother just finished seventh grade. School was out on the 25th. He brought home his sewing projects.

All seventh graders at his junior high school made a cloth pencil case this year. They were given the white piece of cloth with the zipper already sewn into it. They had to sew the checked piece of cloth onto it. They were also given a button to sew on the bag.

They also made a trivet, a hot pad. They were given squares of felt. They cut out a design and glued the squares together. Little Brother glued the yellow star that he cut from the felt on the other side. He used a sewing machine to stitch around the trivet.

Click on the labels below to see his elementary school sewing kit. He uses it for junior high sewing projects.

School Days: The Sewing Box

The tera tera bozu didn't work. It rained today so Sports Day was cancelled. Students had to stay at school for a regular school day (but with an obentou or boxed lunch). Little Brother came home with this, too. It is the sewing box that fifth graders ordered a few weeks ago. He chose the carrying case that says "Fantasy of the Flying Dragon".

We ordered each of the contents in the plastic box individually. There are needles, thread, pins and a pin cushion, scissors, a seam ripper, a tape measure, a ruler, and pink and blue charcoal sewing pencils that have their own carrying case and sharpener. At least the fifth graders had something exciting today. He said they practiced threading a needle.