Cassandra Teaches Scarlett to Sew- Oneshot preview-
Scarlett sheepishly walked into the lounge, tears streaming down her face.
“Mama?”
Cassandra looked up from the book she was reading.
“Hey, what’s wrong?”
“I hurt myself…”
“Come here, let me have a look.”
Scarlett sat next to Cassandra and showed her, her bleeding fingers.
“How did you do that?!” Cassandra asked, eyes wide.
Scarlett started sobbing.
“I tried to sew all by myself!” She cried, “I was trying to make a dress and it went all wrong!”
Cassandra scooped up Scarlett and took her into the bathroom to clean her up.
She washed the blood away, disinfected the wounds and put a bandage around the affected fingers.
“There, all better.”
Scarlett snuggled into her, still whimpering.
“Scarlett, look at me,” Cassandra said, gently.
Scarlett glanced up, her eyes full of shame.
“You must never touch my things without asking me, you know that. Like the weapon cabinet, the sewing box has very sharp things in it and as you found out, those things can hurt you.” Cassandra explained, “you also know that you shouldn’t take other people’s things without their permission, that’s stealing.”
Scarlett cried harder.
“Don’t send me to jail!”
Cassandra cringed. That probably wasn’t the best thing to say to a four year old.
“No, no, no, no, no! Little girls don’t go to jail. I just need you to ask me before you take something of mine, that’s all. But what’s more important is that you got hurt today, I don’t want you getting hurt.”
“But you don’t get hurt when you sew!”
“I do sometimes, but I have big, tough hands, so I don’t feel it as much. Your hands are very little and delicate just now, so if you get pricked by a needle it’s going to hurt a lot more. Do you understand?”
“Yes, mummy.”
Cassandra kissed Scarlett on the cheek.
“What do you say we sew together, huh? I’ll teach you how to do it properly without hurting your little fingers!”
“Yes! Can we make one of those huge ballgowns that Auntie Rapunzel wears? Can it be pink?”
Cassandra chuckled, as Scarlett jumped up and down.
“That might be a bit ambitious…how about a doll?”
“Oh yes! Can the doll have a big ballgown?”
“Sure! I think that should be pretty easy to do.”
Cassandra put a bunch of fabric, toy stuffing and her sewing box on her work desk. It was supposed to be strictly for important paperwork relating to her work as a specialist guard and self defence instructor, but she figured that teaching her daughter an important life skill was an exception.
Scarlett sat on Cassandra’s lap, watching intently as she laid out all the sewing supplies in front of them.
Cassandra drew a doll shape on one piece of fabric and then did the same on another.
“That’s the front and back of the doll.”
“Ohhh!”
“And now I’m going to cut them out.”
Scarlett watched as Cassandra gently cut around the pattern.
“Next, I’m going to show you how to thread a needle.”
Cassandra had expected Scarlett to get bored with sewing after the first five minutes but she seemed mesmerised by it.
“Do you want to have a go poking the needle through the fabric?”
Scarlett nodded and Cassandra quickly placed a thimble on her thumb.
“That’ll stop you from getting hurt but you’ve still got to be careful.”
Scarlett nodded, sticking her tongue out to the side and squinting her eyes, clearly concentrating very hard.
Once the needle was through the fabric, Cassandra gently guided Scarlett’s hand to where the next stitch needed to go and helped her poke it through.
Once the doll was finished, Cassandra decided to make multiple dresses for it, so Scarlett could pick which one she wanted the doll to wear.
By the time the first dress was finished, it
“I wanna do more sewing!” She complained, as Cassandra carried her into her bedroom.
“We’ll do some more later, it’s nap time now.”
Scarlett could barely keep her eyes open, as much as she hated to admit it. She fell asleep as soon as her head hit the pillow.
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