I really don’t enjoy this time of year. As the mid year break rapidly approaches, so to does the time for the parents to receive the reports about their child’s progress. So that means lots of long days, catching up on that back log of corrections, writing the reports, and then if I have time,… Read More
Over the last 4 years I have taught numerous year 8’s how to sew. Our first project is always a pincushion. The surface design is always their own. Some students just do any old thing. Others have wonderful ideas that lose something in the translation into the stitched piece. This year, lots of my students… Read More
Yep. It is that time of year again. The time of year when I disappear from my blog for a short period of time. The time when I clean the house thoroughly. The time when I annoy my friends online with lots of chatting. Yep, report writing time. I will be back when I make… Read More
That is the patchwork top I made last weekend. Ok. So it wasn’t last weekend. I wagged one day last week. Well, sort of. You see, my daughter, who has High Functioning Autism, had her orientation day at secondary school. It was only a half day. And she had to be there at 9am. And… Read More
Last week I talked about the use of mood boards for focussing your thoughts and the direction you may want to take your art work. Following on from the lesson on mood boards, I tried to introduce my students to the idea of collecting the materials they thought may fit in with where their mood… Read More
As part of the Blogging Your Way course, we were given the optional homework of creating a mood board to help us visualise what our blogs were about. Through this activity, I discovered that mood boards, also known as inspiration boards and design boards were useful in helping to focus your thought processes and where… Read More
According to Wikipedia, wearable art is individually designed pieces of (usually) hand-made clothing or jewelry created as fine or expressive art. While the making of any article of clothing or other wearable object typically involves aesthetic considerations, the term wearable art implies that the work is intended to be accepted as a serious and unique artistic creation… Read More
and is it possible to have a group of primarily 14 year old boys (18 of them!) create some wearable art, using needle and thread? What are your thoughts on the matter? I would really love to know. Leave me a comment and I will continue with this musing later today…
NB: If you are here to visit my studio as part of the Where Bloggers Create studio tour, please proceed to the 16th July entry… Over the last 2 weeks I have been working away on my first ever softies, I have already shown Miss Buttons, but I was hoping to have the next three… Read More
Over the last 6 months I have been taking a total of around 50 students from being complete novices with the sewing machine, and hand sewing, to being comfortable with the sewing machines. Some students still have a long way to go, but others have done really well. Over the next few days I will… Read More
