Mackenzie started school today. It was a little weird to watch her get on the us at daycare and go to work and not see her at her school at all. I didn't ride the bus to school, so maybe that is why it was weird for me.
Grandpa Butch picked the kids up from CDC this afternoon and when I went to Grandma and Grandpa's to pick them up (a very tired) Mackenzie wanted to spend the night at Grandma's. I thought that maybe she should come home so I reminded her that her new sewing machine was waiting for her. So after dinner we got her Pixie unpacked and set up. Fortunately Aunt Bonnie (who gave Mackenzie the Pixie for her birthday) had it pre-threaded so we just had to plug the foot pedal in and plug it into the wall and it was ready to go.
Mackenzie did a couple of practice runs and then wanted to make something. Isaac got some leftover robot fabric out of the closet. It had been used to make a beanbag for Thomas and Nicholas and it was cut in an interesting shape and I thought it might make a decent bag so off Mackenzie went with me helping to guide the fabric. She gave it to Isaac and he thought it made a good hat:
Then it was decided that the bag needed handles so back we went to the sewing machine. We found an extra piece of long fabric from Isaac's quilt and sewed a tube, turned it right side out and attached it as a handle. Here is Mackenzie modelling the new bag:
Isaac still thinks that it is a great hat, now with chin straps :) Mackenzie has all kinds of ideas for other things she wants to sew. I think a pillowcase is next . . .
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