Wow! A Sewing Project!

The little one in the house fashioned together a pouch for her Nintendo DS. She used an old shirt, some scraps of material, and a metal zipper from an old Cheetah fur coat, all of which she cut apart. She cut rectangles of the part of the shirt with a design. She sewed the zipper onto the piece of shirt, on two sides to make a case, and then sewed an inner pocket in it to hold the games. It took her about three hours, but she worked steadily until she had a case. A couple months ago, she took various body parts from stuffed animals, and a duck head from an old sock, and made a new stuffed animal with all the old parts. I still haven't figured out how to use our sewing machine so she can get busy on that. It's a tragedy. Something that sounds so simple is stumping me and collecting dust. Several people who know how to sew on one have come to my house in the four months since I bought the sewing machine, but none of them knew how to thread it. I thought it would be easy.