Originally Posted by Lyncat
This thread has made me curious...how many members took home ec and were you a good home ec student? I had 7th and 8th grade, and 3 years in high school, but I was never a very good student in that class. But now I'm very good at sewing and cooking (thanks to grandma and mom).
My school was an all-girls school and everyone took Domestic Science from Grade 5 to 9. We learned to knit in Grade 3 - the first thing I ever knit was a dish cloth knit out of cotton twine and I still have it. In Grade 4 we knit socks for the "poor Indian children of Northwest River" ( I know it is not politically correct but we are talking 52 years ago!) . They gave me, the messiest child in the class, pale yellow wool and Mom had to wash the socks I knit several times before she deemed them clean enough to send. They also got knit several times before the two sock were the same length! LOL!!
I didn't take Home Ec. in high school - it wasn't offered for my program.