Celestia waited patiently as Luna searched through a chest in her bedroom, levitating and dropping all the objects Luna tossed backwards to prevent being hit in the head. After several minutes, Luna finally found what she was looking for. She set down a large basket full of needles, spools of thread, and a few fabrics.

"Sewing?" Celestia guessed.

"Do you recall what I told you of young Sweetie Belle?" Luna asked. "I assisted her in re-stitching the project of her sister's she had sabotaged."

"Yes, I remember you telling me so," Celestia replied. "Except I know how to sew. I don't require a lesson in it."

"Are you sure?" Luna asked teasingly. "When is the last time you'd really sewn something?"

When Celestia took time to think about it, she had to confess Luna had a point. She remembered how to sew, but she hadn't really done it since some time before Luna's banishment. Even then, it hadn't been a hobby, so much as something she did as needed until servants could do it for her. It was only natural whatever skills she had for it rusted over the many years.

"Okay, Sister. I'll let you refresh my memory."

"Wonderful," Luna whispered to herself with a mischievous smirk.

As it turned out, there was indeed a difference between knowing how to do something and actually doing it. Luna had pulled out some old dresses she and Celestia had never worn for one reason or another to play with. All Luna told her to do was sew on a few buttons. Luna managed to sew ten of them on one dress with seemingly little effort, all aligned neatly and evenly. Celestia, on the other hand, was having a much harder time, despite Luna's help.

"Sister, don't pull the thread so-"

"Ouch!" Celestia cried softly. She rubbed her nose where she'd accidentally poked herself.

"-roughly." Luna finished. "Another band-aid?"

"No. I don't think any more will fit on my face." Celestia finally dropped the needle and dress in frustration. Luna tried to stifle a laugh with limited success, but she wasn't laughing at Celestia poking herself. No, she was finding it amusing how she struggled with a modern contraption while her sister was struggling with a more manual, hands-on one.

"One more try?" Luna suggested, taking the dress and needle from Celestia in her own levitation. "Copy me."

Celestia wasn't one to be a bad sport, so she took the other needle, laced the thread through, and slowly mimicked Luna's actions in stitching the buttons. One by one, she finally began to get the hang of it, though her stitching still lacked the neatness Luna's had.

"How are your skills in sewing not lacking?" Celestia asked as she picked up another dress to try stitching without Luna's help.

"I toyed around with it years ago when I was still recovering after Twilight Sparkle and her friends freed me of being Nightmare Moon's puppet," Luna answered. "Mostly when I was still confined to bed."

"I recall. You-" Celestia mistakenly broke the thread by yanking on it and popped off the button she was sewing. She lightly stomped her hoof, but tried again. "You slept a lot for the first three weeks and I had to persuade you to eat properly."

"I didn't exactly sleep well for those weeks, except perhaps the first night. Sister, why are you sewing your mane?"

"Excuse me?" Celestia looked down at her mane and gasped upon realizing she'd somehow inadvertently been sewing it with the thread. Worse, she had managed to successfully stitch some of the buttons on, meaning the old dress was now effectively attached to her mane. Rather painfully, as she learned when she tried to pull it out with her hoof. Luna cringed just watching that.

"Lesson over," Luna decided, taking a pair of scissors from the basket. She cut all the buttons off, first from the dress before cutting them out of Celestia's mane. Of course, her mane being ethereal, the small amount of cut hair grew back, not that it looked noticeably different to begin with. Luna put the basket of sewing supplies and the dressed back into her chest. "I shall assume you won't take up sewing any time soon."

Despite what happened, Celestia was smiling and looked amused. "I'll leave it to you. Though, sewing is done with a machine by most ponies nowadays."

Luna made a mock disgusted face. "Thy ponies of this time hast been spoiled by this blasphemous technology!"

"Oh, Luna," Celestia laughed.