[blparent] Sewing (was Diffusing Temper Tantrums)

[Jo Elizabeth Pinto]

Hi, Jodie.  I can sew up a hole in a stuffed animal or a pair of pants.  Not 
very beautifully, but well enough to get the job done.  Threading a needle 
is hard, though.  There are threaders you can buy that are basically a loop 
of stiff fishing line with a small handle.  You push the thread through the 
fishing line, then push that through the eye of the needle.  Those sometimes 
work, but it's often as difficult to get the thread through the fishing line 
as it would be to get it through the needle in the first place.  There's 
something on the market now called the One Second Needle, where you lay the 
thread on top of the needle and just push down. In my opinion, it's a waste 
of money, and a lot of money at that.  The thread either breaks when you try 
to push it down into the needle, or it falls out because of the size of the 
opening, or it gets stuck in what you're trying to sew.  My favorite needle 
is one I can't find anywhere lately.  It's basically a needle that has 
somehow been split in half down the middle, but with both ends intact, so 
you can open the whole thing with your fingers and push the thread through.

Hope this helps,
Jo Elizabeth

I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's 
brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and 
died in cotton fields and sweatshops.--Stephen Jay Gould
-----Original Message----- 
From: Jodie and Kahlan
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2012 4:28 PM
To: blparent at nfbnet.org
Subject: Re: [blparent] Diffusing Temper Tantrums (Part of Whose rules 
should take precedence?)

Jo Elizabeth, your mention of Nanna teaching Sarah to sew got me
curious. You were afraid she'd say, "because Mom can't see to do it,"
and you said you don't enjoy it, but can you sew? I can't sew to save
my life! I can't even thread a needle. An ADL instructor tried hard to
teach me, but with a complete and total lack of success. It wasn't her
fault; I just couldn't get my fingers to do what I needed them to do.
I'm hoping someday to buy and learn how to use a sewing machine in case
I ever need to sew something for Kahlan.

-- 
Hugs from Jodie and kahlan
"Only a fool walks into the future backward."
Terry Goodkind

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