The Everlasting Story of Nory

29. Why Not Make a Quilt?

After that busy brainwash of a night you might think Nory would wake up terribly tired and alarmed, but no. Her eyes came easily open and she immediately wanted to work on a project in the Art Room — something like make a popup book of an airplane, which would have the little tables you could open and close, or make a teacup out of clay with the steam twirling up in spirals of rolled clay — since Littleguy squushed the last teacup she made — or tell a long story to her dolls while she changed their outfits, or draw a comic strip called ‘The Two Bacteria’ about the many adventures of two bacteria, French and Germ. She got the idea for the comic from a book about teeth which had a picture of some bacteria standing on a tooth. One of them says, ‘Hey, hey, this looks like a perfect spot to dig for dentin.’

She lay under the covers moving her fingers and thinking about the things she could do that day, drawings, inventions, projects. She could make a booklet for Littleguy full of puzzles using things he liked, for instance a maze that would say: ‘See if you can drive Solomon the Steam Shovel back through the mud to the construction site.’ With her cousin Irene in Burlington, Vermont, she was working on a book of projects for kids. One of the projects Nory had already written down was: ‘Make a Tree. Make a tree, every time you do something good hang a card on a branch saying what you did. It may make you happier.’ Nory had never made a tree like that and hung cards on it, but it seemed like a good sort of a project. Another project was to make a ruler.

Make a Ruler:

What you will need:

cardboard

a Ruler

A pen & pencil

A Pair of scissors (For thin cardbord)

for thick cardboard: knife (ASK FOR HELP)

A clear space

A piece of paper & Tape

An Adult who is willing to help you out.

1. Take a thin or thick piece of cardboard and cut it

so it is about 4.7 in. Long and about 1.1 in. wide

2. Trace your cardboard

out on the pice of paper with a pencil & cut

along the side in in. and/or cm. and/or

m. m and Make a mark each time you

come to another one. and number it.

DON’T FORGET TO SAY IF IT’S

M.M OR I.N OR C.M.

Nory hadn’t made a ruler herself, unless you count the one she had drawn on the paper to illustrate how to make a ruler in the project. Another project was a quilt: ‘If you have any rags, why not make a quilt? You could embroider it. It would be very hard but worth a try.’ Another project was:

WRITE A STORY!

Why NOT Write a story. It’s very satisfying.

Here’s some of mine: ‘It was a cold icy freezie day in Autumn. A poor girl dressed in rags shiverd, she was huddled bythe side-walk.’

The project book was going at a slug’s pace, though, because Irene was in Burlington, Vermont, and Nory hadn’t sent off any of the pages she had made so far. Irene had a wonderful dog named Simone.