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lazy Sunday
Jan. 12th, 2015 09:44 amToday when I dropped Gwen off at nursery, one of the ladies asked her how her weekend was, and I encouraged her to tell them what we did yesterday. She burst out excitedly "We watched snooker! I sewed!"
Yup, the next snooker tournament started on the BBC yesterday, and ever since the UK championship in Dec., she's been asking to watch more of "that ball game" on my computer, so I knew she'd be up for watching it with me. I had a pile of mending to do, and figured now was as good a time as any to teach her how to sew, so I told her in the morning that's what we'd be doing and she waited anxiously for the hours to pass until things began.
"Sewing" simply consisted in putting the needle and thread into a piece of fabric and pulling it back out without paying any attention to stitch size, shape, or placement, because I figured learning the motions is good enough for now. We settled down on the couch with a blanket across our laps and watched for awhile, and then she decided that Abelia wanted to watch snooker too, and that she would teach Abelia how to sew:
It was a joy to listen to her explaining to Abelia, "First, you put the needle in like this, and then you pull, and then you push it in from the other side like this". Even though it hadn't been obvious to me while I was trying to explain the method to her, she was in fact listening very closely to what I said!
Yup, the next snooker tournament started on the BBC yesterday, and ever since the UK championship in Dec., she's been asking to watch more of "that ball game" on my computer, so I knew she'd be up for watching it with me. I had a pile of mending to do, and figured now was as good a time as any to teach her how to sew, so I told her in the morning that's what we'd be doing and she waited anxiously for the hours to pass until things began.
"Sewing" simply consisted in putting the needle and thread into a piece of fabric and pulling it back out without paying any attention to stitch size, shape, or placement, because I figured learning the motions is good enough for now. We settled down on the couch with a blanket across our laps and watched for awhile, and then she decided that Abelia wanted to watch snooker too, and that she would teach Abelia how to sew:
It was a joy to listen to her explaining to Abelia, "First, you put the needle in like this, and then you pull, and then you push it in from the other side like this". Even though it hadn't been obvious to me while I was trying to explain the method to her, she was in fact listening very closely to what I said!
