I love today’s guest, Andrea of The Train to Crazy. Andrea is someone I have had the privilege to get to know personally and I am honored to call her a good friend of mine.
This Momma of 4 is on fire, and I love being able to cheer for her from afar!
With the Go To Patterns Shop release this past Summer, her selection of only the finest quality patterns have given her an incredible reputation among the industry. Since then she has released Go To Sew, a site that features some of the latest and greatest patterns and tutorials out there – that just may have a fun sewing competition coming soon! And lastly, this mastermind is working on releasing her own graphics design company andreapannell.com, where she will help fellow bloggers on graphics, media kits, and other things we all need and are clueless about.
So let’s see what Andrea and her 4 kiddos are up to today for K.I.D.S.
I was so excited when Jess asked me to be a guest for K.I.D.S. I decided to ask my oldest daughter to collaborate with me because she is the most interested in sewing. She loves to go through scraps and make quilts, bags and other little creations. But I’ve never taught her technique for anything. My theory (for a lot of things) is that is was better for her just to play around and not worry about right and wrong ways of sewing. But when I asked her what I should make she decided she was going to design it
AND sew it herself.
I was glad she drew a skirt.
So she looked through all my fabric and didn’t like any of my suggestions. Nothing was pretty enough for her. Then she found it. Elephants and stripes. But that wasn’t enough. Something was missing. Oh, right. Lace. Lace was missing.
We followed this super duper easy tutorial to make a simple skirt with a french seam that I made. Or you can follow this Simple Skirt Tutorial that was my very first tutorial back in 2008.
And she sewed.
And sewed.
And her seams were so straight and she was so proud.
But then she had to insert the elastic into the casing.
And there were tears.
Thankfully Grandma came to the rescue and patiently showed her how to do it.
She was so excited. And I was very proud. She did it all herself and it is perfect!!
Thank you for inspiring me to let her make her first skirt! She’s ready to move on to her second garment.
Andrea, that is just the cutest thing ever! Thank you so much for being here today and being a part of K.I.D.S, your little ones are just the cutest. I hope there is a day when we can get all of ours together and let them run around like crazy 
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For more of Andrea’s awesomeness, be sure to check out her patterns and tutorials…
Thanks so much for stopping by, and until next time…
Happy Sewing!
Awesome…she did a fantastic job! You must be so proud!
Oh, wow! What an amazing job! I love the lace trim. (So pretty!)
She did a great job! The skirt looks amazing.
awesome!!!!!! her skirt looks so great
and i’m loving the blog layout too, Jess.
Cutest post ever! I’m dying to teach my daughter to sew, and this inspired me to just bite the bullet and try it.
what a great job she did! following in mommas footsteps?
She did a great job, the pictures with Grandma were so cute.
I cry whenever I have to insert elastic into a casing too, just sayin. There should be an app for that.
Very cute skirt and even cuter girl! Love to see the next generation sewing!
she did such a great job!!! And the lace works great with those adorable elephants, I love how proud she looks!
way to go! and she is only how old??
How fun! What a great first garment.
What a great job! And I love the fabric and lace together. =)
Awwwww! It IS perfect! And awesome! And adorable! And Grandma’s ROCK!!!! Love this!
Well done young lady! beautiful choice of fabric and lace, I love it!
Awww this is the cutest!! I love how the skirt turned out and the photos of the process are soooo sweet!!
What a fun skirt!!
Great job!!!!!
Oh I love this so much. I can’t wait until my nieces are ready to learn to sew