Monday Madness part 2

Yesterday evening saw me back at Oakfield school making costumes for their Christmas play: the traditional tale of Cinderella at the Nativity (yes, really!!!)

We finished the last of 15 outfits, 

and made a dozen sparkly twirly skirts for the stardust children 

Then home for a well earned glass of wine, and a sleep!

School Stitches

Class #2 on Monday only had 4 students, (and a 3 year old,) but we set up a production line: finishing 7 angel outfits, and starting another 5

Three machinists and one cutter!!!

Plus a rubbish-picker-upper 

Resulting in a pile of finishes!

Monday Mayhem

On a Monday I rush from school to Broom Farm and then later onto Oakfield,: the two classes are really different - Broom Farm sees girls working on all different things, while Oakfield sees me as a slave driver as we have 30 costumes to finish in the next two sessions !!!

Still, both are great fun:  some of the Broom Farm makes :

And at Oakfield, all this activity 

Has lead to three of these being finished 

Just a few more to go!!!

Friday Foliage

Today I spent a lovely afternoon with mums and children from Oakfield School. We have been working on a wall hanging to celebrate the school's 50th anniversary later this month.

The school is called Oakfield for a big oak tree in the field that is part of the playground, so we took the tree as our inspiration. Fifty leaves, and fifty inspirational words, six owls to represent the six head teachers, and one tree.

Today I brought in the embroidery machine and the embroidery design software on a lap top. "A" took a basic leaf design and with a brief lesson created the whole name of the school in embroidery

So he started with this basic oak leaf design, and had a five minute lesson in moving, rotating, duplicating and adjusting sizes, and then got on with it . . .

. . . and created the letters that, when I get them stitched out will look like this

The other children each had a go at programming the embroidery machine to stitch their own name

While the mums stitched leaves and owls to the wall hanging

And this is how it looks now

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Oakfield Owls

At Oakfield yesterday we gave ourselves a break from embroidering words onto leaves, and switched to owls instead.

The plan is to have one owl for each head teacher in the 50 years of the school.  I sketched them a simple owl and showed them how to break it down into body and wings, and gave them ideas for eyes, beaks and legs

Didn't they do well

Oakfield Friday

We've now reached 40 embroidered leaves, just 10 to go

Some children got bored with embroidery so they did some weaving instead