One of our very good friends, Melissa of The Polka Dot Chair, just published her first book and we are so thrilled for her! It is called Project Teen and is full of ideas and projects to sew for older tweens and teens….21 projects to be exact. WOWZA! And people think that there isn’t much to sew for older kids 😉
This book would be a perfect early gift for yourself so that you would have ideas and projects to sew for the teens in your life. Take this quilt for example….quatrefoil and pink. LOVE!!!
Or this boy quilt to make for a new room or a college-aged student. Perfect.
And today is our lucky day because Melissa is letting us give one of you this fantastic new book! Just leave us a comment telling us what your favorite thing is to sew for older kiddos, or teens and you are in the running for the Project Teen Book giveaway!
You can see these other blogger’s reviews here….
October 13th: Sew Can She and Piece N Quilt
October 14th: Generation Q Magazine and UCreate
October 15th: Diary of a Quilter and Noodlehead
October 16th: Flamingo Toes
October 17th: Simple Simon and Co and It’s Always Autumn
Melissa has also made a handmade gift tag to go along with her book series. You can find today’s tag HERE. Have a wonderful weekend everyone….we will announce the winner here on Monday;)
I will sew ANYTHING my teen will let me… Currently it is her Halloween costume, but from the pictures above, I know she would love the items in this book and I would get to sew more for my baby again…
I usually sew skirts for older girls.
I made my son a quilt based on his favorite video game. It was the first time I had made one and it isn’t perfect, but he loves it. (And I love that he loves it.)
I like to make bags and zip pouches for my daughter and her friends.
My older daughter is my most difficult person to find things to make for. She is by far not girlie girlie at all!!! I have made her a teddy bear (ugh) but also am getting ready to work on a rag quilt in her favorite fabrics. I have also done bags for her as well that she really enjoys!!
Skirts and dresses! I just made a Renaissance dress for a friend’s 16 year old daughter.
my daughter and I are collecting all her favorite t shirts for a quilt.
My go-to would be a clutch, but frankly, I don’t know what else to make! Having little kids is easy…sewing for adults, meh, but teens? Ha.
I love to sew costumes for my kids!
My tween still likes dresses, but I also like to sew zipper pouches, clutches, and accessories for their technological gadgets. 🙂 Thanks for the chance to win!
What a great book! I have a 16yo boy, and 5 more to come behind him. This would be in use for a long time!
I’ve been sewing lots of clothes for my tween. I have the fabric to make his quilt too. This book sounds awesome!!!
I love to sew dresses for my tween
For teens I make athletic wear for them for sports practice: Poms, soccer, and softball.
Deborah
Oh! I would LOVE this book! Hopefully it’s pages are filled with some sort of magical dust that makes teens want to be compliant with their sewing mama?? LOL
I made my thirteen year old son a cover for his kindle last year and I’m making him a quilt this year. I need more ideas!!!
I love to sew zip pouches for kids!
I made a bag for my son’s drumsticks & he loves it. Now I have to make one for my daughter. Next on my list is a specialized pillowcase and a cape for a costume. I’d love more ideas! Thanks for giving a book away!
So far I have made skirts, scarves and hair accessories for myself, my sister and her little girl. This book would really help with new ideas.
Purses and travel bags are great for teens!
Duvet covers for the college bound…..easier to keep clean :). Hope when my boys are that age they will want me to make theirs 🙂
Quilts for everyone! You can’t go wrong! I’ve got a tween and my house and need this book!
Zipper bags or tote bags!
What a fabulous way to introduce kids who don’t have crafty parents to the happiness that is sewing❤️❤️
The only teen in my life is my younger sister and the only things she ever asks me to make is some ridiculously complicated thing she saw on pinterest. 🙂 But maybe this book could give her some more realistic ideas.
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I love sewing clothes and things for their room
Any sort of bag or zippered pouch seems to work well for girls…my nephews like that they can request special curtains or blankets . . .but they especially like knowing I can hem and repair their favorite clothes!
They love pajama pants. They are easy to make.
I make basketball shorts for my son. It is the only thing he will let me make for him.
As my daughter is getting old, another birthday in 3 days, she’s enjoying totes and soon it will be wristlets and phone cases!!
First off, I would LOVE to win this book. Melissa is so talented and I have been a long time follower of hers. Second, my kids are really young so I haven’t done too much sewing for teens yet, and when I DID sew something for my teenage nephews it was mostly for electronic devices. 🙂
I love to make bags, pouches and totes for my girls but get so stumped for my boys! This would be such a welcome book in my stash! I have 1 boy teen and 2 girls who are gonna be teens shortly! Thanks for the chance to win this awesome book!
I’ve been making small art quilts and cherry stone heating pads: either very practical or completely impractical gifts, and both have been pretty well-received. This book looks like such a gem.
This book is awesome! I would love this, as would all those hard to gift teens in my life. cdahlgren at live dot com
I made travel bags and zipper pouches for my boys.
Zipper bags/pouches are easy and great for all ages…and good stash-busters!
My older nieces are just moving into their tweens, so I’m trying to figure out what they would still like sewn. So far pajama pants and tote bags are welcome. 🙂
I usually help my teenage daughters sew clothes for themselves, and bags they love different types of bags. 🙂
I like to sew crossbody purses for my tween
I sew more for my middle school daughter than for my 1st grader, due to their personalities. I like making clothes for the older one, especially because she can now wear the smallest sizes in the patterns I buy to sew for myself. This saves me money, and gives her a little more sophisticated (but not overly adult) feel to her wardrobe.
I sew whatever my daughter will let me. Usually it is a dress or skirt for church, of which she has to approve before I begin. I’m okay with that as I don’t want to put a lot of work into something she will not wear.
I usually stick with quilts because I don’t know what else to make them.
It’s terrible, but I don’t usually sew for older kids! I’m thinking zipper pouches are going to happen this year for the older girls though! Quilts are always loved by kids in my family as well (just takes me forever to sew the big ones though!). Thanks for the chance to win!
Teens are tough, but my 10 yo loves costumes. She is always asking me to make her latest craze. So far, I have better luck at repurposing things than starting from scratch! Thanks for the neat book giveaway.
My daughter and I would both love to make a quilt. It would be a first for both of us. I currently make her hair accessories and bags and pouches.
I am new to sewing. My daughter is on crutches, do I made her done cozy “crutch covers” to be drifter under her arms and cute too
Some and softer not drifter- sorry about that 🙂
I make jammies, scarves, tote bags, and headbands.
It depends on the teen, but I would say my favorite would be lap quilts.
The link to the gift tag is not working 🙁
Hi,
Great post!
Are the stitched with love tags available at another link? The one in the post clicks to a “choose file” and “submit” action.
Thanks,
Corrinne
My teen is always bugging me to make her clothes, though I haven’t had much time to do so. I made her a new apron for her Alice in Wonderland costume recently.
Sadly, I cannot print the gift tag because a blank page is all that appears when I click on the link.