Embroidery Lesson

While my mother was visiting with us for Thanksgiving, she taught the kids how to embroidery. We went to one of the craft stores and purchased a kit with the design stamped on the pillowcases, ours is called Passion Flowers. The kit included two pillowcases and instructions, I purchased the floss separately, only to return home to find my stash of floss in my cross-stitch bag. We choose to get only one kit, just in case they didn't really want to do the craft.

I was a little surprised that both kids were excited about learning how to embroidery, we thought it would take them at least a couple of day, perhaps even weeks to complete the project, but no - they would have finished in one afternoon only I made them pack it up so that we could have dinner! Here are a few pictures of Gene and Nicole's first embroidery class, taught by their Grandma Agnes:





Knot tying was the only tricky part for both. Ma taught them to tie a knot every few stitches, so that in case a section was accidentally cut the whole piece would not unravel. Good tip!






The kids did an excellent job. They wanted to do more, so we went back to the craft store the next day to purchase another set of pillowcases.