Skills and Maturity
My almost 17-year-old daughter has been working the last few days on a purse for herself. The purse looks like a bustier. (While I have wondered if this is a good choice for her, I consider it best that she has a purse like one than to wear one as clothing!) In pursuit of this project, she has worked on her own. She asked me when cutting it out about how many layers each piece needed. Because she was looking for it on the pattern instruction sheet, she didn’t see the amount on the pattern pieces. Night before last she came to me and said, “I have a problem with something on the purse.” It was the end of the day and my mind had had all it could for one day, so I told her it would have to wait. (I’ve learned the wisdom in putting things off when I’m tired because I know working on something when tired only leads to more problems, not solutions.) Yesterday after a long day of errands, I asked her about the problem. She said she did the strap like the pattern instructed—made a tube to be t...