Charlotte Mason Curriculum Free Craft Help For Non-Crafty Moms
Are you needing a Charlotte Mason curriculum, free for your use? Are you non-crafty and don’t know where to even begin with handicrafts for your kids? Then you have come to the right place!
There are many Charlotte Mason education free resources such as Ambleside, where, last time I looked, was completely free, or you can try the Good and the Beautiful where there are many things that are free as well.
Both of these resources are wonderful, but neither of them have handicrafts as part of their offerings! This could not be tolerated another minute by someone who loves many kinds of crafts and who loves writing children stories… ME!
My current offerings are embroidery or embroidery related.
I have seasonal crafts,
beginner embroidery lessons,
with a few extra tutorials, 95% of which are taught through stories (which is perfect for Charlotte Mason homeschoolers)!
To begin the first beginner sampler embroidery lessons click here!
Today I am sharing with you your child’s first embroidery pattern after they have finished their sampler. Again, to start your child’s sampler, click here.
Or if your child already knows how to back stitch, straight stitch, and stem stitch you can start on this Rumpelstiltskin pattern right now!
So, now that this important information is shared, we are ready for today’s lesson, “Sewing the First Embroidery Pattern!”
Again, click here to download your free Rumpelstiltskin pattern!
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Chapter 8
Sewing the First Embroidery Pattern
Now that the excitement of Valentine’s Day crafts was over, Charlotte and William Oaks were anxious to start their very first embroidery pattern!
They had finished their first embroidery sampler where they learned their first 5 stitches. Their friend, Willow the tiny wood nymph, was the best teacher they could have asked for, and the best friend too. Because of her, they had learned how to embroider:
But now what?
That was the question of the day and was also the source of their distracted concentration. The morning of homeschool had been frustrating to their mom who finally asked,
“What is going on with you two?”
The siblings looked at each other, trying to decide what to say through only facial expressions. This didn’t work well! Neither understood the other! Unfortunately, mom was more confused.
“We really want to embroider our first pattern,” William finally said, “but we don’t know what to sew, how to make a pattern…” Poor William didn’t know how to explain.
Fortunately, mother understood and said, “We will end school a little early today so you can figure it out.”
With huge relief Charlotte and William thanked their mother, assuring her she was the best mom in the whole world!
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What Will Be the First Embroidery pattern?
Normally William and Charlotte would run into the woods behind their house to visit Willow, but they knew Willow was off visiting her grandparents far away.
This gave Charlotte an idea!
“Let’s go to the attic to think. I’m really feeling a need to go up there,” suggested Charlotte. William readily agreed, for he loved it up there, and off they went. Who knows? Maybe they will get some inspiration?
The attic was not like most modern attics, which are quite useless for playing, but since the Oak family lived in a very old home, the attic was a place of adventures, despite all the very old boxes stored up there, or perhaps because of them.
The sturdy boxes could be made into a couple of chairs or benches. Another day it could be a blockade to protect the soldiers from an assault of cushions, rolled up clothes, and anything else that was soft.
Other days, the boxes turned into the walls of a log cabin where Laura and Mary Ingalls lived in the “Little House in the Big Woods” book.
Some boxes had been opened and their treasures uncovered, but there were many more boxes that had never been touched.
Before we go on, the majority of these boxes belonged to great grandparents, and great, great grandparents of their mom and dad. Really old letters and journals, hats, letter openers, pipes, and many more things had been found already.
But today, Charlotte had a sudden desire to explore new boxes.
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Problem Solved!
“Oh wow, look at this!” exclaimed William, “An owner’s manual of a really old car!” It was a car from the 50’s, William just happened to love cars from that decade, so he was in heaven!
Charlotte found clothing patterns for all sorts of things! Aprons, blouses, pencils skirts and more! “These must have been the style when our great grandmothers lived! This is so cool!”
After our treasure hunters had thoroughly explored the car manual and clothing patterns, they discovered answer to their dilemma of what their first embroidery pattern should be, with a helping hand from great-grandma Pricilla Oaks!
They found a folder labeled “embroidery pattern ideas and sketches.”
Charlotte found it first.
“William! I can’t believe it! Look!”
William was just as surprised and excited to see the folder. Inside, it was full of sketches that were embroidery patterns, some never finished. There were flowers, trees, houses, mountains, and a large collection of fairytale drawings labeled for embroidery. There even found an embroidered one! Unfortunately, it must have been in a fire, for some of it was burnt off and most of it was blackened. They could still tell what it was though: it was an embroidery pattern of Rumpelstiltskin! The children could see his foot out the window as he left his spun gold from straw behind him.
Fortunately, the paper patterns were unharmed, and the children took great joy in looking through each one!
Rapunzel, Jack and the Beanstalk, Little Red Riding Hood, Mother Holle, and so many more!
“Wow!” said both children together.
Mom read a lot of fairy tales to them, so they were both fond of and familiar with all of the stories behind great grandmother Pricilla’s drawings.
Deciding which one of the fairytale patterns to choose was now the problem to solve.
At the bottom of the very thick folder was the paper drawing of the Rumpelstiltskin pattern great grandmother Pricilla sewed and survived a fire.
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Charlotte Is A Genius
“I’ve got it!” exclaimed Charlotte with great excitement, “Let’s both make this Rumpelstiltskin pattern! I can embroider one for dad and you can embroider one for grandma! I bet both of them would love a recreation of someone they both loved very much!”
“Charlotte, you’re a genius!” declared William with a grand bow.
Charlotte laughed.
“Let’s go tell dad right now!”
And so they did. They found mom and dad together in dad’s office.
It is rather difficult for children to be understood when super excited, but the children eventually managed to share their scheme. They passed a happy hour showing their parents what they had found and the parents told stories about great grandmother P.
“I knew grandma loved to embroider, but I didn’t know how much until today!” Dad hugged his little embroiderers, “I’m so glad you two found and shared this with me. I think it’s pretty special you two have inherited your great-grandmothers love of embroidery. It’s almost like she lives on in you.”
The children beamed.
A special closeness was felt to family present and past, which was so very special.
After this happy time together, Charlotte and William got to work on sewing the Rumpelstiltskin patterns.
Dad proudly displayed his in his office next to great grandmas charred one. Williams and Charlotte’s grandma proudly displayed hers in her living room next to the photo of her mother.
Has ever an embroidery pattern been so loved? I wonder…
The End
Before You Go
Though this pattern won’t have the same meaning to your family as it did to the Oak family, but it will have it’s own story that is special just for you.
Click here for your FREE Rumpelstiltskin embroidery pattern.
I have more fairytales and ballet stories embroidery patterns on my Etsy shop found here. They are not expensive and you can be print them out and start today!
See you next week for another story embroidery lesson.
