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Sewing classes for kids on Long Island

Originally published: October 8, 2012 1:55 PM
Updated: October 9, 2012 1:38 PM
By Beth Whitehouse  beth.whitehouse@newsday.com

Photo credit: Newsday/John Paraskevas | Sabrina Doyle, 7 and of East Moriches, gets some help with feeding material through her sewing maching from teaching assistant Ciara Stasi, 14, in a sewing class at the "Little Miss Sew It All" sewing studio in East Moriches. (September 20, 2012)

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'Do you remember how to pivot?" Melissa Stasi-Thomas asks the four girls seated at sewing machines in her new, colorful "Little Miss Sew It All" sewing studio in East Moriches. "Needles down, presser foot up."

Fourth-grader Erin Cunningham, 9, concentrates, carefully turning her piece of material to sew around a corner. She and the other girls are making bags to keep their sewing projects...