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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]These are my kids favorite gifts. I understand you are just venting, but if you really hate them then exchange them.[/quote]

This sewing gift is the absolute worst gift ever. Rainbow loom right there also. Science gift isn’t so bad.[/quote]

Really? My STEM-oriented daughter loved sewing when she was little. It's in the same category as Legos for me. Brain-to-hand work. You ever heard of that story with action video games and surgeons?

Maybe you don't want to air your ignorance all over DCUM, PP.

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[b]It’s not that it’s sewing that’s the problem, it’s that the sewing kits for kids are sub-par and therefore difficult to use.  Dull needles, fraying fabric, weak thread, etc., so parents have to help to avoid meltdown.[/b]

- NP who sews, knits, crochets and has a PhD in the hard sciences and binned all the needlecraft gifts my “future engineer” got in favor of a real sewing machine and good, but not expensive, materials.

I commiserate so much with the OP - my daughter gets so many craft kits and science kits because of my background.  They require so much set-up and tweaking to get to work, it’s really frustrating.  I’ve also been guilty of getting these for her and as gifts, so I don’t blame the parents - it’s the quality of the kits that’s the problem.  [/quote]

Yes, so true. I taught my daughter to sew on my Singer.  I don't want a little subpar kit with subpar pieces. The irony is that it's easier to teach her on the scraps of material left over from my projects. We've made doll clothes and bed linens for her doll house.  Her first projects was pandemic masks made with her team's logo.

I also do these things and have a PhD in physics, so there's that.  I'd much rather work with the real deal.[/quote]

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