Hammer, Needle, and Hook

In the world of little league athletics there are annual competitions that separate the individual from their team, helping to determine who is the "Goat"🐐 (Greatest of all time) of the sandlot and gridiron. They all have catchy names that define the very skills they measure... "Punt, Pass, and Kick", "Drive, Chip, and Putt", "Pitch, Hit, and Run", and "Dribble, Dish, and Swish". These competitions are meant to measure the all around athleticism rather than focus on one skill. I bring this up because as a child I was so skilled I never was invited to any of these competitions but if I was I am sure I would have been good at making everyone else look even better. I have always been a better athletic supporter (not that kind of athletic supporter!!) than a star athlete. This is not the case with my in laws, they have delivered 3 college athletes and at least 6 high school state championships. To put it into perspective I am like Cooper Manning! Who is Cooper Manning you may ask? He is the oft forgotten brother of Super Bowl MVP's Eli and Peyton Manning. This means that no matter the sport or game we play "the odds are not ever in my favor"(Yes... Even if we played Hunger Games). Lets just say when we pull out the Spikeball, Pickleball, or even if we ever played Checkers it would be a remake of this classic commercial...

Knowing that I would always lose a "Punt, Pass, and Kick" or a "Pitch, Hit, and Run" against my wife and her brothers I recently created to my own competition that I have so appropriately called the "Hammer, Needle, and Hook".  Move over athletic competition, there is a new sheriff in town and his name is Crafting! Which is only fitting that a Stay at Home dad becomes a Master Crafter (Not the Boat). I am new to the Master Crafter role but am willing to show some of my budding "Hammer, Needle, and Hook" experiments.

Hammer: Armour I made to store all of our twin girls clothes with wainscoted doors.

Needle: A car seat foot cover made out of a wet suit, to keep those babies covered!

Hook: Hats crocheted for the Nephews and Nieces.

So the moral of the story/point of this post is feel free to go out of your comfort zone and bend the "norm". Also my advice, if you can't win in any type of athletic competition... pick up obscure hobbies because believe me I bet I am much better at sewing and crocheting than Michael Jordan!!

So remember... "Some will Sew and some will Reep!", if you aren't good at reeping, you can always try sewing! (Just don't let any of your friends find out!😅)

-Joshua Soffe