Don’t you just love it when you get so wrapped up in what you’re doing that you lose all track of time? I sure do!
My sewing room, kitchen and home office certainly reflect that my creative genie is out of the bottle! Gotta get it all cleaned up before hubs returns home tomorrow afternoon.
Today, I taught grown-ups for a change at the SQTM. Students conquered their fears of curved piecing. They learned how to make Drunkard’s Path and Orange Peel blocks. We used Memi’s Lemons pattern by Fran Gulick @ Cotton and Joy. Didn’t they do a great job! I was also asked by students to teach more classes – which is a great feeling!
This evening, I’ve spent time figuring out how to incorporate a bit of hand-sewing into a DIY Jolly Roger pirate activity for Monday’s enrichment classes. Pinterest is a such great resource for this! I cut the scull and crossbones from felt I had in my stash. The kids will sew on 2 buttons for eyes and make a few straight stitches for the mouth. Our flag backgrounds are a 12″ x 18″ piece of black construction paper cut into 4 rectangles (6″ x 9″) that will be hole punched on one end with ribbon ties added to connect the flag to 14″ long sticks we find outside. The bonus? This activity will allow me to gauge if my students can handle the felt stuffies I want to make with them before Christmas. Hopefully so, because I have a bin of materials and picture books I assembled back in the summer ready to go! If not, I have festive back-up activities planned and the older kids can make them spring semester.
A friend asked if I planned to continue teaching Monday enrichment classes after this school year. I don’t know. It’s been exactly what I’ve needed right now. The tradeoff has been having to plan travel and other activities around someone else’s schedule again. (Hubby was right when he said committing to 28 Mondays in retirement is a big deal.) It didn’t really bother me until the bee group I’ve been invited to join scheduled its organizational meeting for this coming Monday morning. Dang it! The group’s organizer expects the actual bee group meeting day to fall on Wednesdays, like the majority of other bee groups, but the official day won’t be determined until Monday’s meeting. Keeping my fingers crossed!
Now to clean up the creative clutter!
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