The biggest compliment I got last year was from one of my oldest’s child’s classmates. I had come to pick them up from afterschool and I was walking on cloud nine. I had just driven back to Boston from Plymouth where we had done the first fitting of the jacket on Elizabeth. The piece had come alive that day for the first time ever. I was still carrying my camera in my purse that I had filmed her with and couldn’t help showing the first people I saw the video of Elizabeth in a partially finished jacket twirling in a dark office. That is when we all started to scream – “she is covered in diamonds!”
So it happened that the first people I saw was a group of 7-10 year olds. I gathered them away from their construction paper and paste and burbled about this jacket and cool threads and pretty spangles. They crowded around, looked at the video on my little camera, and oohed and ahhed. Then one of the girls looked up at me and sighed and said ‘You have the COOLEST jobs’.
I have known these kids for a long time and often go into class to tell them about something I am doing. The last thing I had shown them was electro-textile jackets that played music through the fabrics. So I guess I do have cool jobs in their eyes. So I am not sure what people think when they hear my kids answer to the question in the title.
‘My mom is an embroidery engineer.’
What the heck is that?
Tricia
P.S. Here are the videos they saw that day
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