KIDS SEWING VIDEOS
A series of online courses and Sewing DVDs for Kids (ages 6 to 10) that takes them on a Yearlong Sewing Adventure to learn how to sew 35 simple beginning Pixie Projects and even a Pixie doll & clothing.
Kids (ages 6 to 10) can learn how to sew simple beginning projects with our Pixie Projects Series.
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It was 2010, that I decided it would be really awesome to film some sewing videos to teach kids how to sew. I'd been teaching kids sewing classes in my home studio for over a year. My little students came back week after week to class so excited to make another project or finish one from the previous class. So I figured this could be an excellent way other kids could learn how to sew, even if there wasn't a teacher in their town. |
I had already tested many of my projects on the students in my class and they just loved them, so now all I have to do was round out the collection to include enough to make a complete series.
After doing some research on the web, I was surprised not to find much available. There certainly wasn't anything like I wanted to do out there. So, I called my business partner and said "Hey, do you want to film some videos with me?" He said, "Sure that sounds like fun!" And, within 3 months we had set up a home film studio, bought the equipment, and completed filming a full series of what would be called the Kids Sewing - Pixie Projects Series.
We then spent the next year editing, editing some more, and doing final edits. I'm not sure why, but it took so long...maybe because I wanted them to be the best I could make them. Once I got them edited now came the process of turning them into master DVDs. That took even more time. Oh, and then there was the DVD covers that I had to design...all 10 of them!
Now after about two years, I finally had something ready to send to DVD production company, but around and around I went with that. I contacted over 5 companies and paid to have multiple copies made, but nobody could make them to the quality I wanted. Until, I found this company called CD-fulfillment.com (when I got the samples back from them I was so happy). But this had made the whole process now take 2 and 1/2 years. And, I didn't even have a website yet.
Okay...so now it was time to figure that out. I thought it would be easy since I had made a huge website for my wedding dress business, but it wasn't. Why? Well, because I wanted to be able to sell my Kids Sewing DVDs (which was a physical product) and my online classes from the same site. But surprise...that combination wasn't really available in 2013! I mean it was, but everything was still so buggy.
I tried setting up multiple websites for online classes and by the time I got the last one done the times had changed and it was obsolete because it was not mobile friendly. I had spent probably another year trying to figure out the whole online classes thing, just to ditch it. So, I just went ahead and put up a site on the Wix website builder for KidsSewingDVDs.com which I still have today. Then, I just waited until the right online classes platform presented itself.
Finally, in the fall of 2015, while being totally frustrated with yet another online building platform, my husband did a search and found this site called fedora, where you could be a online teacher and have your own classroom. Within a couple weeks, I had my site customized, all 75 videos embedded and my classroom up. It was so easy, that site is now called teachable and it's where my Pixie Projects classes are held.
I would love if you checked it out! Here is my school link KidsSewing.teachable.com
Creatively,
After doing some research on the web, I was surprised not to find much available. There certainly wasn't anything like I wanted to do out there. So, I called my business partner and said "Hey, do you want to film some videos with me?" He said, "Sure that sounds like fun!" And, within 3 months we had set up a home film studio, bought the equipment, and completed filming a full series of what would be called the Kids Sewing - Pixie Projects Series.
We then spent the next year editing, editing some more, and doing final edits. I'm not sure why, but it took so long...maybe because I wanted them to be the best I could make them. Once I got them edited now came the process of turning them into master DVDs. That took even more time. Oh, and then there was the DVD covers that I had to design...all 10 of them!
Now after about two years, I finally had something ready to send to DVD production company, but around and around I went with that. I contacted over 5 companies and paid to have multiple copies made, but nobody could make them to the quality I wanted. Until, I found this company called CD-fulfillment.com (when I got the samples back from them I was so happy). But this had made the whole process now take 2 and 1/2 years. And, I didn't even have a website yet.
Okay...so now it was time to figure that out. I thought it would be easy since I had made a huge website for my wedding dress business, but it wasn't. Why? Well, because I wanted to be able to sell my Kids Sewing DVDs (which was a physical product) and my online classes from the same site. But surprise...that combination wasn't really available in 2013! I mean it was, but everything was still so buggy.
I tried setting up multiple websites for online classes and by the time I got the last one done the times had changed and it was obsolete because it was not mobile friendly. I had spent probably another year trying to figure out the whole online classes thing, just to ditch it. So, I just went ahead and put up a site on the Wix website builder for KidsSewingDVDs.com which I still have today. Then, I just waited until the right online classes platform presented itself.
Finally, in the fall of 2015, while being totally frustrated with yet another online building platform, my husband did a search and found this site called fedora, where you could be a online teacher and have your own classroom. Within a couple weeks, I had my site customized, all 75 videos embedded and my classroom up. It was so easy, that site is now called teachable and it's where my Pixie Projects classes are held.
I would love if you checked it out! Here is my school link KidsSewing.teachable.com
Creatively,
