Meet My New Beginning 3-D Students

This first quarter was all about color theory, design and learning how to sew and embroidery along with craftsmanship.  Here are my beginnings putting it all together in their sweet felt pin cushions.

Senior Jinnie Choi above with her sweet piece of cake, and 8th grader Annie Lin with her adorable strawberry. 

Above we have senior Julia Kim with her beautifully crafted sunflower, and below are 8th grader Cassidy Cransirik and junior Daphne Chiang.

Hello Kitty was made by senior Esther Woo and next to hers is junior Bianca Tolentino.  Is it "On" or "No"????

And lastly we have juniors Alice Hong and Kaili Hamada.  

Beautiful work all!

Partically Felted Pincushion - My Work

I wanted to send my girl off to college with a handmade pincushion filled with safety pins, threaded needles, buttons and straight pins.  So I went thru my unfinished projects and found this funny little half felted piece of wool.  Originally I had tried to recycle some cut off pieces of wool sweaters into a felted ball.  But as you can see, it didn't felt up the way I had planned, so I stuck it in a drawer for later inspiration.  It came when I was searching for something to make Dan's pin cushion out of.

I sewed on a button and seed bead for eyes, and a bugle bead for a mouth, and filled the cushion with all the goodies I thought see might need in a pinch.

Kind of a cutie I think.   I really like how he turned out, with personality plus, and hopefully it will come in handy when she needs to do a bit of mending.