I spent the most part of the lesson trouble-shooting and sorting out problems as they arose. We learned how to end-off the floss and start a new one. We also learned to stop in time, before the last bit is to short to end-off properly and also not to let the last bit of double floss close to the needle get 'worked in'!
As you can see from these 3 examples, every child work at a different pace and with a different touch. Which is great, as the last thing I want is for everbody's work to look the same.
Tomorrow I am going to teach them to do the chain-stitch. I've shown them examples last week and some of the kids want to use it for filling-in and some for lines. And one or two of them want to make daisies on the wings... Exciting!
I took these photos after class last week, as the lesson itself is just to busy to take photos. Hopefully I will get a few action shots tomorrow.
1 comment:
I had to have a little giggle at this one with the teaching then to stop part and in the other post at finding that one stitch a lesson was a bit much! I am an art teacher in a primary school and have done embroidery as a part of one of our projects, I have classes of up to 28 and no assistant and 45 minute lessons so I could totally empathize with you on this one!
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