Ever since American Girl of the Year, Isabelle, showed up, my daughter has been salivating over the Sewing Studio. While putting one together didn’t seem too hard, I was really stumped on the sewing machine. The ones that I could find seemed ridiculously expensive and so we resolved to make one. Off to Joann’s and Michaels we went!
We used:
Crayola Modeling Clay
Small screw eyes
A tapestry sewing needle
Small wooden spools
Small wooden dowel
For the actual molding, I pretty much pulled up some google pics of sewing machines and let my inner kid out. After two tries, we had a reasonable sewing machine form.
I broke the wooden dowel at a long enough length to keep the form stable and still stick out (for the spool holder) and stuck it in.
I screwed in a screw eye to represent a threading arm, and stuck a thick tapestry needle in (upside down so that the eye would be able to be threaded and the pointed end was safely encased in clay).
It takes a few days to dry completely (package suggests 72 hours). One thing I noticed was that the back started to crack a bit. We filled in the cracks with regular Elmer’s glue and set it back down to keep drying.
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