My 10-year-old is turning into a totally crafty gal! She was so totally excited to get a box in the mail yesterday with two new Knifty Knitter looms:
Flower Loom:
Spool Loom:
I told her she couldn't start a new project until she'd finished the others she was working on, so earlier this week she finished up a doll that she's been knitting for her little sister's birthday next week. That is,
*she knit a doll*! From scratch! She conceived the whole project on her own, devised a plan for working on it, then (here's the kicker for me, who has about a dozen unfinished projects sitting around here somewhere) she worked her plan!! I had no idea she had that in her.
So last night, she tried out her new spool loom by knitting a small tube scarf for one of her American Girl dolls. She totally rocks! And she has elaborate plans for Easter knitting project fun. That she's already thinking about in
*January*! Who
*IS* this girl?
*MY* child?!?
She's also been teaching herself to crochet, but I let her go on having that project completed... she's working on a striped afghan, and I can see that a 5th grade girl in school full-time, taking piano lessons and completing 60-90 minutes of homework a night plus coping as the oldest child in a family of seven could use a little slack from her slacker mom.
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What fun! Good for her... you've got a go-getter there!!
This same idea blows me away everytime I look at my kids. How on earth have they turned out so motivated, so different from me? It must be a picture of God's grace, hmmm?