lesson: beginning embroidery & "monster pillows"

I spent a decent amount of time this fall teaching some kids to sew a bit. On paper and on fabric.
Though the self portrait projects can be simply BEAUTIFUL, many students just weren't into it because it takes some perseverance.

But, they did seem to enjoy creating a stuffed pillow shaped like a cute monster. They custom painted fabric, traced out what shape pillow they wanted, used some Heat N Bond to create iron on patches. They used those for eyes and whatever else they wanted.

Much like any first run project, it had a few problems, but in general I'm really pleased. I'm looking forward to making this even better for my next group with more shape and embellishment choices.

We didn't have a lot of time due to holiday schedules, so most only have the minimum required finshed, but a few kids were able to add a few extra details and new stitches. We're missing a few last minute ones in this photo above but we had 8 total, not including my sample.

teacher sample

This photo causes me lots of "cute aggression"