Sewing Lessons

So, this is Kylie, she's my second grand daughter and is 10. She has been very anxious to spend time with me so we can work on one of her talents, sewing. She's done a few projects with her other grandma and at Primary Activity day, but has been wanting to show me what she's learned. Since I've been sewing for Julie's baby, I had something that she could make for the baby shower that was coming up.

This picture was taken at the baby shower last Saturday.

Here is the project that she put together for her newest baby boy cousin who will be joining us very soon. It's just a little "Lovie blanket" I'm sure he'll really love it, especially because Kylie made it for him.

Here we are putting it together, and she's learning to watch the pressure foot instead of the needle.
Guiding the fabric and she was working the foot peddle.
This is my first sewing machine, purchased over 35 years ago. It's a good ol' friend and has been a great machine but is defiantly on it's last leg. The foot peddle has been broken and repaired many times first with hot glue, then super glue and tape, but it still works. I can't find a replacement one either. Now the bobbin winder has stopped working. I probably would have just replaced it but it has one built in stitch that I just love and use all the time. Some old friends are just impossible to really replace.
Here's Ema, she's 13 1/2 now. She has been working on her sewing skills for some time now. In Young Women, her first 10 hour project is learning how to sew. The first few hours of the project was done at Christmas time. She made pillow cases for Dane, Ella, Abby and herself. She's getting good at it too. In fact the sewing machine that Kylie was using is Ema's.
I guess I'm a serious seamstress, (or maybe I'm just a sewing machine collector) these are my other machine choices.
Grandma Jeanie's Viking machine by the wall, which I am trying out to see if I want to buy that kind. Then there's my serger, which I don't know how to use to it's fullest potential, and Ema's sewing machine. I need to figure out which kind I want to buy so they can have theirs back.
Ema is almost finished with her 10 hour project, she made 4 burp rags for Julie's baby shower and will finish up by making some drawstring pajamas for herself and her sisters.