We started a flock of sheep several years ago, deciding to breed up our own lambs for flock growth. Our family farm is located on a hill in the lush prairie lands of east, central Wisconsin, where we enjoy four distinct seasons and a seemingly endless supply of summer grasses, except in drought! We are surrounded by old oak forests, bountiful spring woodland flowers, quiet roads, and clean quiet lakes with a popular river nearby for fishing. The whole project was a great experience and fun, too! The rest of the yarn on this skein was made into scarves for dolls and sold at the market. The other hard part was centering the title. The hard part came in writing up the patterns perfectly! lol But that, too, was excellent work in diligence, neatness, and proofreading.and was far from overwhelming. The youth who made these swatches had no problem making them. I don't think some of those adults ever 'healed' from their feelings. This poster became a local symbol that youth CAN and DO learn at an amazing rate, and they can do more than you think they can! It took three days for the Best In Show ribbon to be placed on the poster, as hard feelings seemed to be swirling around among some adults.

Somehow in our modern world, asking youth to learn things seems to have been lost.

If you look back in history, children were knitting much more challenging things than this, and doing so regularly and easily. You have to work over and past those people. I'm not sure what has happened to good learning attitudes here in America, but so many people think the easiest things are too challenging for kids.

I think the poster created some bad feelings among some people as they didn't understand that someone so young could possibly DO such COMPLICATED work.

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