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My 8 year old just finished her first project!

My daughter has started several projects and quickly lost interest. I came across a stamped project and thought she might like that better than counted cross stitch. I was quickly told that she wanted to do counted cross stitch - like I do.

I was sorting my stash not too long ago and I found a finger towel and soon after that some patterns for sport towels. Since my husband has taken up bowling again after a 15 year hiatus, I asked her if she wanted to make him a bowling towel for christmas.

Yes, it was supposed to be a Christmas gift, but while she has worked on it over several sessions it was not finished for Christmas. Tonight, my husband asked her if she was ever going to finish it because he wanted to take it bowling and show his friends what his daughter had made for him. He bowls tomorrow. She secretly got out her project and worked steadily for two hours and finished it.

It is a bowling ball, bowling pins and has the word "Strike".She was so pleased and proud. I kept seeing her doing a happy dance in my mind. Oh, and I think she's hooked. She told me she wants to finish her needle book next!

I hope so. I am almost finished with my project too. When I am, it's a new afghan for my bedroom that I have planned to crotchet. Her last crotchet project turned out to be a very long chain. She used an entire skein of yarn and told me it was a cat toy because the cat chased it around the house whenever she moved it.

As an end note - I'm very lucky that she imitates and through imitation can learn skills that will last her a lifetime. I'm also a little saddened about other young kids that have no one who displays an interest in crafting.

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Theresa
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Congratulations to your daughter, and to you and your husband who obviously just struck the right note with her!

I wouldn`t be too sad about the other kids who have no-one who displays an interest in crafting. We can`t all be the same, nor can we expect our kids to be as hooked on our interests as we are. More important that they DO have an interest of some kind (mine was horses!) that will encourage them to learn something because they WANT to, for themselves. One of mine hates computers, two of them have no interest in crafts, but we all have several common interests anyway!

All you can do is to encourage them in any shared interest, but not try to force it on them

Pat P

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Pat P

Also, some of come to crafting later. I did do needlework when I was younger, on and off, but took a pretty long hiatus and took it up seriously in the last five or six years. When i was younger, I just had other things to occupy me!

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lewmew

My Mother is a home economics teacher. She teaches 9-12 grade. Although home-ec is a far cry from what it use to be (i.e. creating Suzzy homemakers to now teaching teen's how to take care of the babies they are having)

Mom does in fact still teach her students the finer points of folk/traditional crafts- from sewing (quilt squares), kitting and crochet, even cross-stitch, to canning in the cooking class she trys to introduce her students to these traditions. As for me... I was her gunie pig as a child and was her crafter. My sister (who, since having children, has become more a domestic goddess/crafter) was more into other things. However when her responsiblities changed her interests changed. I don't think she is less for coming over to the craft side later in life. In fact she is more apt to finish all of her projects, unlike me who has many UFOs lying around :).

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