Today was the final day of school holidays here. We did some tiling, pizza oven building, had a surprise visit from Beth and Malcolm, cooked pancakes for breakfast and made some more apple fruit leather. This afternoon Bella decided to sew herself a softie. I enlarged the pattern for her and she spent the next hour and a half pinning, cutting, stitching, finger knitting legs/arms and stuffing until her softie was finished.
I think this is the very first time that she has completed a sewing project entirely by herself. I mean she found all of her own supplies, set up a craft area, packed everything away, knotted, threaded and pinned the entire project without asking for a smidgen of help. Sometimes she struggles with threading the needle every time by herself or knotting off the thread, but not today.
This little softie now has her own bed, mattress and four freshly created felt vests to wear too.
Well done Bella, I'm really proud of you for creating this little critter all by yourself.
