Name: Great Homeschool Conventions (Columbus)
Start: 2025-04-24T00:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-04-26T23:59:59-05:00
Location: Columbus, OH

This topic has 13 replies, 10 voices, and was last updated 13 years, 4 months ago by Missy OH.

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October 27, 2011 at 1:56 am
Tristan
Participant
I’m so excited to see new SCM products and these handicrafts DVDs will make my oldest girl’s day – she’s 10 and has a relatively non-crafty momma. Now we can learn together or she can learn and teach me!
Which one to pick first? Hmmm…..

October 27, 2011 at 2:11 am
suzukimom
Participant
They do look good!
October 27, 2011 at 2:56 am
sheraz
Participant
I am sooo excited about this! My girls love to do this stuff and I like the additional visual help. Yea!
October 27, 2011 at 3:06 am
Carolyn
Participant
I have always wanted to learn to crochet! Since I have boys I will have to order it and just schedule it in for mommy time
October 27, 2011 at 3:11 am
suzukimom
Participant
Not necessarily…. my dad knew how to knit and do cross stitch… (and how to use a sewing machine for basic sewing)

It takes a real man to knit…..

(and I figure any child that may ever want to be a surgeon better learn how to sew….)
October 27, 2011 at 3:18 am
Carolyn
Participant
Suzukimom-that is awesome! My almost 5 yo loves to watch me sew. He is fascinated with how machines work and those are skills that a man might need someday.
October 27, 2011 at 10:41 am
MamaSnow
Participant
FWIW, My husband is an aircraft mechanic and every so often he has to use a sewing machine to sew things like seat covers and I don’t know what else…so yes, sewing IS a useful skill for boys too. =)
Jen
October 27, 2011 at 10:58 am
RobinP
Participant
I’ve taught my boys to cross stitch. I want them to learn other sewing techniques (after I learn them!) I remember reading that the fishermen who made the big nets for their fishing also knitted the beautiful, warm cable sweaters to wear on their fishing trips. The women were busy weaving or spinning. I do a lot of things but sewing is not one of them. My home ec sewing teacher in high school got in my face one day and shouted, “You see this gray hair??? It’s got your name on it!!” Traumatized me for life.
October 27, 2011 at 11:23 am
simple home
Member
Just found my Christmas.wish, or two! 🙂
October 27, 2011 at 12:34 pm
Doug Smith
Keymaster
I have always wanted to learn to crochet! Since I have boys I will have to order it and just schedule it in for mommy time
One of the crochet projects is juggling balls, so some boys might enjoy trying that.
October 27, 2011 at 9:42 pm
Jenni
Participant
My dh earned a home ec award in HS. He was about 6’6″, 285lbs at the time, and he’s even bigger now with a full beard and usually wearing camo, which makes for a great photo op as he’s teaching our girls to use the sewing machine. Yes, “tee hee”, but I am so blessed by this manly man. Thanks for the new resources, SCM!
October 28, 2011 at 12:39 am
suzukimom
Participant
Oh, that reminds me when I was a Scout leader (at that time Boy Scouts (it is now co-ed in Canada)), and wanted my scouts to know how to sew on their badges. Although I had never got complaints from them, I was worried about them not wanting to do it because it was a girl type of activity.
So, I asked my Rover Advisor (Rovers are like scouts, aged 18-26) if HE would come and teach them. He is also a gib 6’6″ guy that looks like someone you wouldn’t want to meet in a dark alley…. He can sew on badges much better than I can. (He can hand-sew on a badge so that you can’t see a single stitch… even if you used a differen coloured thread. he didn’t teach them that, mind you… just the simple method…)
I didn’t have a single complaint…..
(btw, Delta (ds8) sews on his own cub badges – and also sewed on a button that came off of his sister’s overalls (that one was for a badge requirement))

October 29, 2011 at 11:05 am
MamaSnow
Participant
You know, it just occurred to me that one of these DVDs together with all of the supplies needed to make the projects all together in a nice box or basket would make a lovely Christmas gift….
Just a thought!
October 29, 2011 at 11:09 am
Missy OH
Participant
Mamasnow,

Thank you for the idea. My almost 10yo daughter wants to learn how to knit or crochet. This will make a lovely gift for her!

Blessings,
MIssy