wilburness

GREAT. GREAT. GREAT. JOB. Miriam. thank you Mother Nature..... if you were not snowed in.... LOL

miriam

Wow a lot of snow melted today - now we have mud

Ellpea

Love it! Maybe you should start a new thread, for original poems about VSM's - ;-)

miriam

I never did paint this machine I just saw it yesterday. I didn’t remember how much work I put into it. This machine will be getting a hand crank and I will be using it to teach some sewing projects with some kids. If anybody in the Indianapolis area is interested in helping with some classes please pm.

bkay

If I weren't so far away, I'd help. Teaching kids about sewing and sewing machines is rewarding.

bkay

Annaquilts

e and d Sorry! If you are having fun with it just do what you want.

miriam

Yes it is. I will have 20 or 30 city kids. Any ideas?

leonf

GF and I do hands on HC demos fairly often. For small quantities we do treasure pouches. About 3 x5" finished A hem ( or casing) acrose the top. Fold it An L seam accross the side and bottom, turned inisde out. Yarn can turn it into a drawstring bag. When we do 1400 kids in a day , it is a simple seam for a bookmark.
We go in with precut rectangles of scrap fabric. Kids love to chose their fabric. We may have 10 different colors or patterns, purchased at thrift stores or leftover from other stuff.

PS you could post your poem to haikus if you want.


I agree with bkay... if we were closer.... sigh. We will be doing a big demo again for earth day.

leonf

Oh yes. and when they turn the crank the wrong way and break the thread I tell them that they get to do one of the hardest parts. Threading the needlw. Saves my eyes and they enjoy it. Sometimes three kdis will try it before it happens.

If there is an event theme we try to talk about that as we assist.

bkay

The only thing I've done is quilts. In Dallas, the 5th grade Talented and Gifted class has a module on quilts and their history. They learn to make a quilt as part of this. The first year I did it, they made a class quilt, with each choosing their squares for a 9 patch. Their 9 patch represented their years at their school. We made them with 5" squares. They used my accuquilt to cut the squares (they loved that). Some of the kids used some of my 5" I spy squares to represent themselves. We used green as the center square and white as 4 of the squares, so they only had to make or choose 4 squares. We assembled them into squares and then into a small quilt. I sandwiched it and they quilted it. Then, I bound it.

They then had to write a story and make a quilt that represented their story. They could make a quilt , pillow cover or wall hanging. On this, they could get help from parents, siblings, etc.

The second year they did it, we made wheelchair quilts for donation. Then we made a class quilt. It didn't go as well as the first year.

I did learn some things. Use a glue stick to hold the fabric together that they sew. It's hard for them to get the concept of "just a little", but it really helped. The second year, we used painters tape to make the sewing lines for quilting. If you use the tape, sew beside it, not on it. It's hard to get off if you sew on it. Another thing is to have a photo or drawing of how the machine is threaded.

bkay

I'll post some photos later. I have to reduce them.