Pragmatist
Pragmatist

A little better....
Thu Apr 07 2005

I don't know what happened, and I'm not complaining, but this contraption has decided to work again. Still slow, but not as slow as it was. I didn't get logged off today in the middle of IMing with my sister. And I got rid of maybe 150 backlogged pieces of mail. I still have over 100 to get through.

I'm not ignoring all my DD friends. I am reading. I just can't take time to leave comments if I'm going to get caught up while this thing decides to work.

The weather has been nice enough to go out without a sweater. It'll rain again tomorrow, but the weatherman says only tomorrow. Well...we'll see. Tomorrow is the monthly Leisure League luncheon, and of course I expect to be driving in the rain.

I happened in the synagogue office while the rabbi's wife was there. She saw the bag I just finished crocheting, and liked it. She's the director of the summer camp at the shul, and she asked me if I'd consider teaching crocheting during the camp. I said sure!

Each year the kids have a "project" for that year's camp, and I'm going to suggest a wall hanging. If the kids are interested, I'll teach them to make granny squares, and we'll sew them all together at the end of camp and hang it in the activity room. I have to give this more thought as to how we'll do this, and hope enough kids (INCLUDING boys) are interested.

Some of you may know about Rosey Grier. A very large, and very popular football player of a few years back. He did needlepoint, and some beautiful work he did. It's hard to imagine those huge hands threading a tapestry needle and doing that delicate stitchery. I'm going to use that as propaganda to entice the boys to try crocheting. If that big macho football hero can do needlepoint, then pre-teen boys could certainly do crochet work.

Couldn't they?

I wonder if someplace, some search engine in cyberspace, would have pictures of his work.

Well, I see I have some planning to do.

Shalom

7 Comments
  • From:
    Sezrah (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu Apr 07 2005
    i admire anybody who has the patience to do needlework. i tried it once and it (nearly) drove me bonkers

    sez
  • From:
    Calichef (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu Apr 07 2005
    There's no reason boys can't crochet, too! Check this out: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5936679/. You might even want to copy/paste it to a sign-up flyer. I would, however, omit the last paragraph. LOL!!!
    Hugs,
    ~Cali
  • From:
    Calantha (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu Apr 07 2005
    Good idea to use Rosey as insiration. Sounds like fun to teach the class! Glad your puter problems are resolving themselves.
  • From:
    CovertOps (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu Apr 07 2005
    Dear Chaya,

    So glad your computer is running again! Please don't worry about catching up on comments. You are not taking part in a comment-writing competition, you know. We know you care and you have always been there for us. Take a break! Commenting can be hard work when you have so many entries to read and comment on.

    Needlepoint is a productive and fulfilling hobby. It cultivates patience and hand-eye coordination. I have never personally been interested in needlepoint, but I know Jake would have the patience to do it. He took over the dreamcatchers that I was trying to weave and completed it all neatly. He is such a smartie!

    Take care & love to Baensidh!

    Love & Hugs,
    E.L.
  • From:
    Allimom (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu Apr 07 2005
    A couple years ago I talked to the kids about learning piano, all three had the same response...
    "How do you play a piano in a marching band?"

    I think they would have the same question of an organ!
    Alli
  • From:
    Welshamethyst (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu Apr 07 2005
    That sounds like the perfect project for you!! Go get 'em, tiger!

    Hugs
  • From:
    Sweetsummerbreeze (Legacy)
    On:
    Tue Apr 19 2005
    I wish I could go without a sweater. We actually had snow today.