Lovely Links: pockets and yes, kids need to learn to knit

Flap Pocket Tutorial

An interesting alternative to the kfb, and a biography of Mr Zimmermann.

And surgeons need to know how to use their hands, so do many other people in important work.  Kids need crafts to learn how to use their hands for more than cell phones.  But I’m not sure it’s all up to the schools.  We know how to do clever things with our hands, and we probably know some children.  How many of us learned to knit, sew, crochet, cut dollies out of felt, mess around with scraps, because it was raining, and someone watching us had their tools out?  Lets pass it on.