I picked up 2 Stitch kits from Bangalore when I went
for vacation last August. When Nikita saw it she also expressed interest. So
everyday after lunch we both sat together and worked on it for an hour or so.
If it was just me I would have listened to music while
stitching. But since my offspring’s taste in music didn’t match mine I had to
give way to audiobooks. Audiobooks are recordings of books being read aloud. Nikita is a big fan of audiobooks. Other than when she is studying, having her
meals or sleeping, audiobooks is ALWAYS on. She listens to audiobooks when
she is art/crafting, she listens to audio-books when she is cleaning her room…the
list goes on. I don't put up too much of a fuss because she gets to catch up with the old classics in Literature something she'd never get to do otherwise.
We were half-way thru
a book by Eleanor Porter when Nikita lost her needle. It fell through the
narrow gap on the side of the sofa & could not be retrieved. Then we
decided I would work on my piece in the morning and she would use the same
needle to work on hers after lunch.
After a week or so she lost my needle the same way she lost
hers. Since no other needle could be used[the needle eye is large
as the thread is thick] we lost 2-3 weeks until I hunted around and
found almost the same kind of needles from the super-market. Back we went to our old
routine & finished the book[22 chapters] we were listening to.
Then Nikita lost her needle again. The same way. She got a
nice shelling from me this time;-/. And I forbade her to touch my needle until
I finished my piece.But it was no fun doing it alone. And I had to finish it soon. By now Audiobooks kind of grew on me and I
started listening to ‘The Count of Monte Cristo’ by Alexandre Dumas which I last
read during my school days and had forgotten much of. Somehow listening to a
story being read does not give me the kind of satisfaction I get when I hold a
book, turn pages and follow the plot with my eyes. But all the same I continued
listening and am hooked to the story now.
The above is Nikita's unfinished work. She is planning to frame hers as soon as it's finished and hang it in her room. I'm planning to frame mine and gift it to my sister when she comes to spend her Christmas with me:-)).
I completed my picture today[yaayyy] but I still have around 40-45 chapters[there were 119 altogether] of the book to go. I want to complete the story but cant see myself listening to audiobooks just like that. Any suggestions???
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