We had some great weather today despite two rather impressive bursts of rain. Between the storms the sun and the sweet birds singing all but made up for my wet basement. The sunny break also gave us time to get out on the front porch and get some photos of the kids in action working on my newest pattern for introducing quality crafts to children. I strongly believe that children should be crafting with the same quality products available to adults and that their projects should have the goal of being just as beautiful as well as useful.
The Vintage Scissor Keeper pattern meets those goals and was inspired by our homeschool reading about the pioneer and Victorian women who cherished their scissors as precious positions to the extent that they often wore them on a
Chatelaine or at the very least kept them in small pouches to protect them from harm. I hope to install in my children such reverence for the tools that they use. A start to that was creating a special holder for their 7inch student size scissors.
Above is a peek at one of the "keepers" that my boys made today with more to come along with the pattern in PDF format. I will also be drafting a pattern for standard size adult sewing scissors and a pattern for small "
stork style" embroidery snips.
This project fits into multiple different kinds of lessons.. early tools-
including the history of scissors or perhaps you are working on measuring? This project has a strong emphasis on correct measurements as a way to assure pleasant and reliable crafting results. History? why of course! Scissors and sewing have played a strong role is history, after all,
Betsy Ross didn't weld the the flag did she?.. no she was all about the needle and thread and you can be too! So check back in the next day or two, we are sooo close!
