We are in stitches at the Mountain Folk Center. Teresa
Goley. Family and Consumer Sciences agent for North Carolina Cooperative Extension
has been working with young and old teaching sewing skills.
With Christina Rogers, it was a joy to take a seven-year-old
mind and watch the love for sewing sprout with each project that she undertook.
Her older sister Autumn, who began sewing with Cooperative Extension when she
was about the same age as Christina, inspired Christina. In fact, Christina
showed up for class one day wearing an adorable little tunic with her jeans and
cowgirl boots. The tunic was one of the first projects that Autumn completed
with Cooperative Extension Sewing program. Christina loved the hand-me-down and
was convinced that she, too, could sew the same as her older sister.
Christina’s first garment was a cute little spring skirt made of purple taffeta
with a lace overlay. Christina’s mother, Brandi Rogers, stated that she was
having a difficult time getting Christina out of the skirt long enough to even
get it laundered! Christina’s latest project is making colorful pillowcases for
children with cancer. She has enlisted the help of all the other young sewers
in the Sewing and Sew On 4-H youth program to complete a bundle of pillowcases
for children with cancer. Christina plans to present her project to adult women
volunteer groups, Extension and Community Association Clubs, in Cherokee
County. Then Christina plans to research
regional hospitals with pediatric oncology and ask if she can deliver the pillowcases
to young cancer victims.
It is not only the young sewers getting experience.
Teresa Goley’s mother, Marie Lowe, recently participated in the Sewing and Sew
On Adult program while visiting in Murphy.
While Mrs. Lowe has years of sewing experience herself, she has not been
actively sewing for a number of years. In one of the classes, she completed a
pair of summer knit pajamas. You could just see the spark re-ignite as she
completed her pajamas in one class session. At 86 years young, Mrs. Lowe
decided that “she wasn’t too old after old after all” to jump back into a
favorite pastime.
Photo 3 - Marie Lowe with finished project!
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