My nephew kept bugging me that he wanted to "do sewing like you," and after 3 straight days, I finally caved. I figured it would be a good thing to unplug the boys and teach them a useful skill at the same time. Simple running stitches weren't challenging enough for the 8-year-old, so we ended up doing cross-stitch.
This is the 8-year-old's work. (I did the eyes and backstitch outline for him.) He's the one with good hand-eye coordination and refined motor skills, so: minimal supervision, and I've never seen him so concentrated on something that wasn't a computer game.
Which brings us to the 7-year-old's work. The one who kept bugging me to do this. His motor skills? Not so great. This is his unfinished, constantly re-worked, heavily supervised, done with much whining project. It's supposed to be a dinosaur, in case you can't tell. It's not cross-stitch, it's just half-cross stitch because having to add the extra step to make the X seemed to be beyond him. *palmface*
This is mine, from that drawing in the previous post. I started trying to cross-stitch those folk art birds and trees I'm obsessing over right now, but uh, my cross-stitching skills equal that of the 7-year-old. It brought back the horrors of grade school sewing class. *shudder* I might stick to embroidery instead.
Embroidery? Oh holy gods, I'm turning into my mother!!!!
posted by: cat
