The other day I heard someone describe teaching as something that could either give you "warm fuzzies" or "cold pricklies".
Wednesday and Thursday were definitely warm fuzzies!
I forgot (as always) my camera for Wednesday, so I'll have to grab some pictures next time. We are approaching the end of the City & Guilds course and there is some utterly fabulous work emerging. I am stunned at what people have been able to go away and do after a session of vague and waffly teaching with me...(well, it feels vague and waffly to me sometimes! I get side-tracked by ideas). Promise photos next week...
Meanwhile, on Thursday we have been making holes in things. Someone told me a while back to confront my fear of teaching with craft tools that could potentially burn down the building, as it was fun...and I think I'm finally convinced!
Here is my original sample (in a sudden flash of inspiration it is backed with FOIL - I have after all got quite a lot of the stuff)
And here is Ann's piece, pre-burning of the holes - this is Ann who said she was no good at free machining...I beg to differ:
Angela's (also pre-burning). I love the frayed edges of the silk that Angela has used:
And Carole has been very busy, displaying her work beautifully in a hard-backed book:
And Sheila has also conquered free machining and produced some beautiful work:
Now that we've burnt holes in anything that will stand still long enough, we've started to play with shirring elastic:
The Girl has also been stitching cut-through circles for her plant cell quilt:
Girl tacked all the hexagons, I did the triangles (because the points were fraying) and then Girl stitched it all together by hand, and free-machined and cut away the blue vacuoles. All nuclei and chloroplasts also stitched on by Girl's hand. Since this (blurry) photo, I have stitched it up with wadding and a backing, and Girl will machine quilt it next time I can grab her to come and use the sewing machine...
Science homework isn't what it was in my day...
FINALLY we also managed a spot of tray-dyeing in class yesterday (no wonder the car was laden to the roof!)
Sneak preview...
I haven't ironed it yet...