As the days get colder, we spend more time inside, and therefore have to find more things to keep our hands and heads busy. I would say that 'handwork' and 'crafts' are two of the major subjects in our learning at home experience. Robert is working on a huge paper-crafting project and so the kids have started doing a lot of those as well. At first I sort of freaked, because I thought they would stop making their lovely homemade paper projects. The truth is, it hasn't slowed them down any. Now they use the stuff Robert downloads as fodder for their own creative inventions. We go through a lot of paper! Also, growing out of my own desire to
attend some sort of
'stitch and bitch', I started a '2nd Sundays Handwork Circle' at my house. It may be getting in way over my head, but I hope it will be fun. Lucy started making a patchwork project, which she says is going to be a quilt for me. And I made my very first quilt, using some directions from Amy Karol'ls Bend The Rules Sewing
I made it for a friend and it was a totally rewarding experience. I especially enjoyed making bias binding with my new Clover bias tape doodad, and then finishing the quilt by sewing the binding onto the back by hand.
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