Yellowknife teen follows grandmother's crafting footsteps finishing moccasins with her beaded uppers
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A Yellowknife high school student is proudly wearing moccasins he made using pieces his late grandmother started before she died.
When Lyndyn Cockney, a Grade 12 student at École St. Patrick High School, noticed classroom assistant Karyne Daniels making a pair of moccasins at school he became curious.
“I was really interested in that,” Cockney said. “She offered me to make the moccasins, and I took the challenge right away.”
Daniels said the class has allotted sewing time, which is when Cockney noticed her working on the moccasins.
“I said to Lyndyn that I would for sure show him how to do them, but he would have to take care of the uppers, which is the beaded part of the moccasins,” she said.
Cockney went home, told his mom his plan and she reminded him they had a pair of uppers, started years ago by his late grandmother.
As a child, Cockney said he watched his grandmother make clothing and beaded pieces, but she slowed her crafting in her later years. In 2017 she died from cancer.
He said he and her grandmother were close.
“Just a really close bond…[I’d] just get in trouble and I’d go to her first, she gets me out of trouble,” he said.
Daniels said she was impressed with how quickly Cockney picked up beading.
He approached another teacher at his school to teach him and finished the uppers over a weekend.
“I beaded until two in the morning,” Cockney said. “Took a day break and then on Sunday night that’s when I finished them.”
Cockney said watching family bead his whole life helped him learn the skill quickly.
With the uppers complete, Daniels said they got to work on the rest of the moccasins right away.
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