DIY Sock Teddy Bear DIY Projects. Dollar Store Crafts » Tutorials. How To Do Things. How young children learn English as another language. By Opal Dunn, educational consultant and author Young children are natural language acquirers; they are self-motivated to pick up language without conscious learning, unlike adolescents and adults.
They have the ability to imitate pronunciation and work out the rules for themselves. Any idea that learning to talk in English is difficult does not occur to them unless it’s suggested by adults, who themselves probably learned English academically at a later age through grammar-based text books. Keywords: fiber, craft, diy, how-to. I'm warning you: the sock squid is a gateway fiber project.
Today you're thinking "I'm just gonna sew this one little fella to give to my buddy, sort of almost as a gag gift," and before you know it you'll be lining laptop sleeves in microfiber and crocheting iPhone jackets. It is a sickness, and it starts be snipping slits in socks and learning a couple simple hand stitches. The sock squid was my first sock animal experiment: In the late-1990s I went through a sock animal period--much like Picasso--during which there was no gift-giving occasion that didn't see the birth of a creepy, gangly, adorable socky simulacrum. Prior to this, my sewing had been entirely limited to emergency mending; I had no interest in threading a sewing machine, following a pattern, or learning anything beyond the plain-vanilla whipstitch.
Today, I unwind by sewing a travel pouch for my tea infuser, then try to tell myself that this is basically what any red-blooded American man might do on a Friday night.