I have two sick children at the moment. One recovering and one heading into the worst of it.Time is untethered and wandering all over the place for me.
Yesterday Lauca spent the day with Bill’s mother who was delighted to discover Lauca has an interest in sewing. The Montessori school has taught Lauca to sew buttons and she enjoys it so much she chooses the activity for relaxation. Many foreign concepts for me in that sentence. I can’t sew buttons, I can’t sew hems; I’m a ‘staple the fallen hem back and safety pin for the missing button until you can get to a tailor’ kind of woman. Yes, it is expensive being that ignorant. And then you have a child. Lauca has returned from her visit to her grandmother’s with a sewing basket of her very own and many samples to practice with.
I must admit I rather like the ideas Lauca comes up with for her goddamn craft sewing projects.
And underneath the pale green felt is this etsy-looking creation..
And then here is the library bag her grandmother made with her yesterday…
And here are some of the buttons Lauca sewed on..
I die of etsy cute.
That’s pretty thrilling!
Go Lauca and her tiny hipster self.
Sewing is a good habit and skill to have, Give her time and you can pay Lauca to do your sewing for you. Something nice for her and her grandmother to share too. Mine taught me to crochet.
So cool, and fabulous that she likes to sew – long may it last! Me, I hate to sew (I can do buttons and hems, but I don’t like to, and that’s the limit of it) and anything along goddamn craft lines. Except knitting and crochet. For some reason those aren’t “craft” to me, and I am totally addicted to my yarn play.
Those are fabulously sewn on buttons. I would be encouraging the acquisition of sewing skills all I could, in the vague hope that I could just pass all the sewing tasks over to the child.
I’ve not been the best at teaching my children to sew, and now my eldest is the only child in her class who doesn’t know how to thread a sewing machine, even though we have a perfectly good sewing machine somewhere in the house. #parentingfail
My Nan handed on the mending tasks to her oldest daughter as early as possible, and my aunty kept doing it even after she left home. I say encourage this and reap the rewards!
oh that is brilliant! What a talented daughter you have. Do you think she could make her own clothes someday? I am always so jealous of people who can. I’d love to be able to make a quilt too. What are those brilliant craft festivals you guys have in Australia – the Finders Market? I bet Lauca would love going to one of those for inspiration.
I predict she’ll be knitting you a jumper by the end of next year.
That is some nifty sewing indeed – and this coming from someone who can’t properly sew a button. A hem? Forget it. Hopefully Lauca’s interest will keep up, and you’ll have tons of these cute things to brag about for years to come
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