{"id":37,"date":"2011-08-28T08:44:52","date_gmt":"2011-08-28T12:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/polymathsolution.com\/blog\/?p=37"},"modified":"2011-08-26T08:53:31","modified_gmt":"2011-08-26T12:53:31","slug":"a-crafty-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/polymathsolution.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/28\/a-crafty-family\/","title":{"rendered":"A Crafty Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My kids love making things almost as much as I do.<\/p>\n<p>My teenage daughter makes chain mail jewelry. She does beautiful work, and has sold quite a bit of work locally. She&#8217;s planning to create an Etsy shop (note to self: use this to teach her business skills, marketing and accounting), and just gave her first private lesson to a paying customer.<\/p>\n<p>My pre-teen son has been learning to knit for a few months, but loses interest quickly. However, he was fooling around with finger knitting a few weeks ago, and I remembered I have a ball of very, very thick baby blue yarn that would be perfect for finger knitting. So he&#8217;s been finger knitting up a storm, and last night, finished what may be the longest finger knitted snake on record. It&#8217;s over 15 feet long, closer to 20. (note to self: measure it!)<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve also all been learning to spin, and I have a couple of woodworking projects for which I need helpers. Fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My kids love making things almost as much as I do. My teenage daughter makes chain mail jewelry. She does beautiful work, and has sold quite a bit of work locally. 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