Artful Mending

Yesterday, at my house, Nora was wearing a tee shirt from Aunts Sarah and Winnie, made from organic cotton. Petagonia. New. Especially nice.

And it just so happened that Aaron got angry when he had a scissors in his hand (a little scissors from the art box) and snipped a hole in the back. Maybe the real picture was his look of horror when he realized what he'd done. Nevertheless, there was a time out invoked.

I couldn't face sending Nora home with a hole in her shirt, so I asked her to choose a fabric for a bird from the huge scrap tote. A few minutes later she came back with a second fabric, saying that just one bird would be lonely. Below you'll see the new back of her shirt, which will live on to be worn other days.

The picture is pretty true to size. It wasn't a very big snip.