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Product Details
- Binding: Toy
- EAN: 0731346019516
- Feature: This kit won Dr Toy's Best Classic Toys Award and Parents' Choice Approved Award Comes with cool pre-cut patterns, 8 colors of embroidery floss, shapes to make felt animals This kit is a perfect travel or rainy day activity This kit is a great activity for one child or a small group Art activities encourage a child's imagination and learning development A notebook cover, stuffing, fabric, ric rac, needles, scissors, measuring tape, straight pins, thimble, pin cushion, buttons and a pom-pom strip
- Label: Alex
- Publisher: Alex
- Studio: Alex
Editorial Reviews
A case full of everything you need to learn how to sew and create fantastic art and fashions. This sewing set inculdes precut patterns for quick and easy projects, eight colors of embroidery floss, stuffing fabric, ric-rac, needles, scissors, a measuring tape, straight pins, thimble, pin cushion, buttons, and a pom-pom strip.
Customer Reviews
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Fun projects, Nice fabric, Terrible scissors by P. Gould
This is a nice introduction to sewing for about ages 5 to 9. The project ideas are pretty cute and the fabric and trims are colorful, so most kids will be excited about making the stuffed animals and the bag, at least. (We didn't have a book of the correct size for the book cover project, but used the fabric for something else.) The projects aren't too complicated for beginning sewers but are neat enough to interest a (slightly) more experienced young seamstresses. My one criticism is that the scissors are just toys, and do not cut at all, and the "thimble" is also pretty useless if your child really needs to push a stitch through.
THE BEST BEGINNERS SEWING KIT I'VE FOUND! by Debra Taplin "Tinker
I searched a long time to find a quality beginners sewing kit for my 6 year old granddaughter and finally found this one. I am happy to have purchased Alex Toys "My First Sewing Kit", as it contains EVERYTHING needed to create projects, start to finish, giving a child confidence to go the next step in a knowledge and gift she will take with her the rest of her life--sewing! Included are: Patterns for small animals, stuffing, colorful embroidery thread, needles, pins, pin cushion, buttons, measuring tape and scissors (though I read reviews about them being the only poor-quality item, so I bought the Metro 5-pc scissor pkg through Amazon--Excellent!). All of these sewing tools are housed in a sturdy, colorful and roomy case with a handle, keeping all items and projects organized in one spot.
Upon opening this sewing kit at her birthday party, my granddaughter forgot everything else and wanted to start a sewing project! I'd say this is my proof of recommendation of this terrific product!
Purchased as Gift, Now Buying One for Own Family by M. Schreiber "TV-fre
Please let me start by saying that I have not actually USED this product yet. I purchased it as a gift for a friend's daughter who turned five, and before I gave it to her, I opened it up and photographed the things inside, so you can look at those pictures and the notes I wrote on them for even more information. However, I was so pleased with the quality and overall FUN-ness (to coin a word) of this product, that I am now back to purchase one for my own daughter who will be turning five soon. However, although I haven't yet used it, I can supply the following information:
1. The Box: The box it comes in is a little cardboard suitcase, brightly colored and patterned, with bright red stitching sewing it together. It has a typical suitcase-type handle made of metal and plastic that folds down flush against the box for easy storage, and those nifty metal clasps that one finds on tackle boxes or boxes for art supplies. It is easy for little people to open and close. The box is sturdy enough to keep using for the sewing kit, as long as you don't sit on it or anything.
2. The Supplies: Upon opening the box, you see a very FULL kit. It does not look like a thing or two overpackaged in a huge box; the box is stuffed. It contains the following:
-a paperback booklet explaining the projects along with sewing basics;
-a package of stuffing (which is probably not enough to do more than one or two of the projects, but will get your little one started, at least until you can get to Michaels or have Amazon ship you the stuffing of your choice);
-a packet of felt of various colors, cut into various shapes, such as animals, as well as rectangles;
-A packet of a few scraps of quilting cotton in bright colors and patterns;
a sewing kit containing:
-a cheap plastic thimble (worthless, but it's unlikely that a five-year-old would use a thimble anyway, especially with felt);
-a paper measuring tape;
-a pair of inexpensive sissors (I don't truly know how well these will cut fabric, though for snipping threads they seem like they would be fine);
-a "toy" tomato pincushion (I say "toy" because, although it will hold pins without a doubt, it is not stuffed very full, it is made of a lightweight cotton batiste or similar fabric, and it does not come with the usual emory strawberry for sharpening your needles, but after all, this is a FIRST SEWING KIT - not a "Last-You-a-Lifetime Sew-a-Rama Sewing System");
-a wheel of large-head multicolor pins;
-a few sewing needles;
-many standard skeins of DMC embroidery floss in bright colors;
-a packet of ribbons and trims, etc - again, not very many but enough to get a kid started with a project or two until mama has time to go through her scrap bag and find more things.
All of these items fit very nicely into the box, as I said - it neither looks chintzy and over-packaged, nor is it stuffed so full you cannot close it once opened. The kit is priced VERY nicely for what you get. My daughter was so excited about giving it to her friend, and kept saying how much she wanted one of her own, and the friend also seemed very excited to receive it. All that said, here are my few criticisms:
1.) Pink, red, orange, etc color theme is very specifically aimed at girls. Well, I think little boys might enoy making stuffed animals and doo-dads, too. Alex could either make a similar kit geared to little boys, or make an effort to make the box, materials, and trims more gender neutral.
2.) A few things in the kit are a little cheap - I'm thinking of the thimble and the paper tape measure. It might be better to leave these things out, as even without them, the kit is quite complete. The cheap quality of these few little items alost detracts from the high quality of the rest of the product.
3.) The kit says "age 7 and up"; Although a 7-year-old might enjoy it, I think it is quite age appropriate for a five-year-old, as long as assistance will be provided. In fact, I might say that a 7-year-old should have something a little more advanced than this. But then, it all depends on the child - mine is very good with crafts and things of this sort, and has done some sewing before. You have to decide for yourself. I wouldn't give this to a ten-year-old, though.
All in all, this product is great and I highly recommend it. Please look at my customer images for closeups of the included items and the box, and for more notes about the product. Enjoy!
Great for crafty kids by Mother Hen
My daughter loves crafts, and she's finally old enough to start learning how to sew. This kit is adorable, and my daughter is excited making her own stuffed animals. The embroidery floss holds easily in the needle's eye, but it is TOUGH to thread the needle. I suppose I could just give her a bigger needle, but then the thread wouldn't hold as snugly. Everything is precut, even the decorative trim pieces. It's a fun way to create some satisfying projects she can proudly display.
This item was O.k., for the fact that the embroidery thread was hard to pull through the fabric and hard to thread through the needle. This comes with a thimble, which has no use. The scissors could easily cut through the felt, so I don't know what other people were saying. The downside is that this is very frustrating for a child who is 6 and under and who is a first-time sewer. The material runs out very fast and so does the cotton. It is hard to stuff the animals. In my first attempt to try sewing, I ended up with an animal with the stuffing poking out. You could do a much better job by using a sewing machine. It took me 5 minutes to make one project, and I finished all the projects in an hour. (But the pincushion is very cute! We actually played hot potato with it! We took the pins out first!) Overall, this product is ok. I would recommend this if you are looking for something to get you started in sewing for you first-time sewers!
Busy little fingers by Barbara H. "Barbara
This sewing kit is perfect...especially if your little one already has experience sewing. Making a finished product before having practiced can be very frstrating. Practice stitches first! Make simple bean bags, etc.. The projects themselves are a little tricky, but with adult oversight can be satisfying...they are cute and bright! We seemed to be missing a doggy ear for one project, but other than that the supplies were in order. Hint: Let your child help separate the different projects into small baggies so you are ready to begin without confusion.
The thread is too thick for either of the two needles, the thread colors don't match the buttons, and so on. Your child will be very excited until they learn that the needles and thread don't work, and therefore the whole kit is useless. Catastrophic oversight, but so easy to fix, if they even cared. DO NOT BUY THIS.
Great beginner sewing kit! by Bizz "bizzmom"
My 6 yr old daughter got this from Santa this year. She loves it! It comes in a cute little suitcase. There are lots of accessories. We have almost finished the elephant. We just need to sew on the ears. Great for kids that are not ready for the sewing maching yet. I think she sews better by hand than I do!
Great Deal by Abby B
My daughter loves her sewing kit. Her patience is short so she doesn't sew for long periods, but she can't wait or her projects to be done. She loves the little projects. Every piece listed was in the kit. We love it!
Sewing kit is great for small hands by Megan J. Crownholm "
I bought this for a 5-year-old and she is more than able to navigate the sewing projects with minimal assistance. She loves the projects and is motivated to sew, which is great for her fine-motor skills. There are several cute and easy projects to make and the items are of good quality.
Great introduction to sewing! by gorditer
My 6 year old daughter loves this kit! She was so proud when she finished making her first stuffed animal. A winner!
7 yr old loves this by D. Paynter
My daughter says: "I didn't know any sewing before I got this and now I learned a whole bunch. I think it is lots of fun."
My 7 year old granddaughter loved the sewing kit! It is a great opportunity to interact, have fun and also learn valuable skills.
Great toy! My 5 year old loves it (with supervision) by doclane2
My daughter loves to sew at 5 years old and she loved creating new "stuffed animals" and a purse with this kit. I highly recommend it.
Great First Sewing Kit by Michelle M
My 6 year old daughter loves this. She was a little frustrated at first until she got the hang of using the real needle, she will be a seamstress in no time :) Great for learning and has everything.
Almost perfect by H. Johnson "erika"
My 6 year old has been dying to learn how to sew so we finally got this kit. She loves it and has been doing great. I have to thread the needle but otherwise she's pretty much doing it on her own. The only thing that might have been nice is if she had been able to cut the patterns out herself but they come pre-cut.
Great fun for my daughter. by Johanna V. Murphy "J
She loved being able to learn simple stitching patterns and felt so proud of herself as she accomplished each pattern!
sewing with my granddaughter by jane dunn
She has her own notions now, could use cards to store thread, but other wise wonderful.
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