If you give a girl some fabric

If you give a girl some fabric

she'll want to iron it.

So you tell her to use the little ironing board, so the iron isn't too close to her precious face

and let her have at it.

Of course, she'll need some starch, too.

So you'll give her two choices; the homemade, in the easy-to-spray bottle,

and the magic sizing.

She'll choose the stuff you use, and say it's actually easier.

She'll spray and iron, spray and iron,

and spray and iron some more

until she is satisfied with how crisp her fabric is.

Then she will decide she wants to make a purse out of the fabric,

so you'll even up the edges,

then glue baste her seam allowances

and mark a stitching line.

You'll teach her how to love her thread, and take a few stitches through the thicker part,

then hand over the needle.

She'll concentrate very hard

and sew and sew

and even poke herself a time or three

until she has a finished purse!

Which she will, of course, want to iron.

As soon as it's all nicely pressed, she will decide she wants to add some beads to it.

because, she is your daughter, after all.

You tell her how much easier it would have been to add the beads before sewing it into a purse,

but then you explain that you totally understand.

So you find a smaller needle,

one that will go through the beads,

and show her, one time, how to sew on a bead,

and remind her that she'll have to be very careful or she'll sew her purse shut.

And then,

she will bead.

And before you know it, 

she will have a lovely little beaded purse,

(that did not get sewn closed)

just waiting for you to help her get  handles sewn on.

You just never know what will happen,

when you give a girl some fabric.

~

Lex' ~ Momma is so proud of you!

linking up with Amanda Jean's Finish it up Fridays :-)