Easy, Elegant Project to Make for Mom

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Sharon Meany — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 13:20:58 GMT

smeany:

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broodmom — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 02:17:03 GMT

I was about six to eight years old and made Mom a napkin of red cloth crudely embroidered with a flower and the word "Mom" on it. I believe this was made in school as a Mother's Day present. It's now in our family trunk where we keep memorabilia of several generations, starting with a few things from our great grandparents.

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Maryse4 — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 01:08:04 GMT

My first project for Mom was an apron...spent all day on that thing... she even wore it! I was so excited Happy MOM's day lets remember the ones who want to be yet aren't yet...

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marty white2 — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 20:27:45 GMT

I was about 5 when I stitched a scarf for the dresser. It is yellow daffodils on a dishtowel stains and all (some might be my blood) made from a flour sack. I didn't know Mom still had it until only a few years ago. She is not with us now, we had a long time, 101 years, to learn to make better stitches and wrap our fingers with a strip of cloth when we pricked them. But never did we stop at that time anyway, because of a ***!! Some stitches are at least a half inch long and a knot on the top but is a precious possession to think it was kept all this time! 60 plus years and it is a finished piece! Mom crocheted around it and displayed it on spare bedroom dresser until sometime after I went away to work. Amazing I don't remember the long stitches or the knot being there then! Now so many unfinished projects! LOL marty

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sewnicole — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 15:35:31 GMT

My first stitched project was a Barbie dress, I sewed it on my grandmother's old treadle Singer sewing machine (converted to electricity, but you still could use use the treadle).I was 9.

My favorite Mother's Day gift was one I made for my mother. I had wrote her a poem, & when she read it, she cried & said she wanted it "stitched". (she knew I loved to do cross-stitch). So I cross-stitched the poem & added 2 decorative cross-stitch borders around it. She absolutely loved it. My mom passed away 10 years ago, & I have that framed poem hanging in my sewing room. It's a very special keepsake to me.

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heather pyle — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 15:32:58 GMT

I have a funny mother's day gift story. When I was about 10 years old I decided to raid my mom's fabric stash and make her a mother's day gift. My parents used to sleep in on weekends and I have always been an early bird. I hand picked the prettiest little scraps and pieces of lace and arranged them on a fabric covered ottoman to hand stitch it all together. I stitched away making what I thought was the prettiest apron ever for my mom to wear. When my mom got up I rushed to get her and show her the very special Mother's Day gift I made her. Alas when I tried to lift it up so she could try it on I discovered I had sewed it to the ottoman!!

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kovt — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 15:14:57 GMT

Around 6-8 years old, hand sewing clothes for my dolls from my mother's sewing scraps...

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ineke3 — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 13:31:59 GMT

My first stitched project was a "needle book" when I was about 6. It was a Christmas gift for my mother. A needle book is an embroidered cover with flannel "pages"to keep your needles in, size around 3"x 4. My grandmother taught me how to do the cross stitches and helped to put it together. 55 years later I made a new one "for my Mom's birthday as the original was starting to show its age. Talk about a usefull object! Ineke van Hasselt, Victoria Canada

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2004rkc — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 13:21:26 GMT

I was 8 yrs. old [ 42yrs ago.. yikes] and I drew a doll on some plain white fabric and stitched it up on my moms old kenmore, I loved it, the doll was about 8" tall, and a magic marker face, stuffed with cottonballs, and I wrapped a strip of fabric around her body for a dress, don't think she had hair.. that was my first sewing machine project....