Like Mother Like Children
Sprout and Farmer Boy* were motivated to learn crochet themselves when they saw me making Ti'Loup's blanket **and asked that I teach them. They have now each completed a project for themselves. I will try to get them to model for me for posterity's sake. Unlike my first attempt*** as an 11 year-old, they both saw their attempts through to the end and have something nice to show for it.
They were so into it, they even took their projects along in the taxi when we had to go downtown for admin purposes. Here they are outside a restaurant, waiting for us to decide if we will eat there.****
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* I am pretty sure he told me he wanted a new handle, but bad intermittent blogger that I am, I forgot. I need to go back through my posts and check.
** This is actually not strictly true. What really made them want to learn was our friend JC sharing that I had taught her daughter H to crochet on a felucca in Egypt when she was about Farmer Boy's age. H now makes all sorts of cute amigurumi animals. :P
*** It was too awful to continue: It was to be a scarf for yours truly made of granny squares--solid electric blue and solid black--alternating in a checkerboard pattern, two squares per row, so about 3inX3in each. I believe I finished 5 squares before calling it quits. I shudder to remember it.
**** We hardly dine out, so perhaps we are behind the times in general, but this was our first time in a restaurant since COVID. We were so lost with the "contact-less" dining, having to scan their QR code to get a menu to be able order. What about people without smartphones? It was a surreal and uncomfortable experience and not one I want to repeat any time soon. :P
They were so into it, they even took their projects along in the taxi when we had to go downtown for admin purposes. Here they are outside a restaurant, waiting for us to decide if we will eat there.****
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* I am pretty sure he told me he wanted a new handle, but bad intermittent blogger that I am, I forgot. I need to go back through my posts and check.
** This is actually not strictly true. What really made them want to learn was our friend JC sharing that I had taught her daughter H to crochet on a felucca in Egypt when she was about Farmer Boy's age. H now makes all sorts of cute amigurumi animals. :P
*** It was too awful to continue: It was to be a scarf for yours truly made of granny squares--solid electric blue and solid black--alternating in a checkerboard pattern, two squares per row, so about 3inX3in each. I believe I finished 5 squares before calling it quits. I shudder to remember it.
**** We hardly dine out, so perhaps we are behind the times in general, but this was our first time in a restaurant since COVID. We were so lost with the "contact-less" dining, having to scan their QR code to get a menu to be able order. What about people without smartphones? It was a surreal and uncomfortable experience and not one I want to repeat any time soon. :P