It's safe to say we severely underestimated how long it would take for us to do everything we needed to be fully prepared. We finished the envelopes and most of the prep for the workshops last Wednesday, we spent this afternoon threading up needles in preparation for tomorrows workshop in order to allow the session to run smoothly.
Our To Do list for the two meetings:
Complete envelopes
- Cutting out fabric swatches
- Selecting appropriate thread colours and embellishments to go with the fabric swatch
- Creating a tag, cutting these out, threading up and attaching a safety pin so they could easily be attached to the finished samples.
- Creating a information/instruction sheet which explains our concept, what we would like the person to do and thanking them for taking the time to do so. We created two different sheets using a larger font on one which would be included in the envelopes to be given out after the Live at Home sessions bearing in mind that a smaller font may be difficult for the elderly participants to read.
- Put needles in the packs selecting ones with appropriate sized eyes for the envelopes to be given out at the Live at Home sessions.
- Create labels for the envelopes and stick these on.
- Create a label for Rhi's drawer in the Textiles department which she has volunteered for us to have as a drop off point for University students to return their envelopes to.
- Create labels for the envelopes and stick these on.
- Create a label for Rhi's drawer in the Textiles department which she has volunteered for us to have as a drop off point for University students to return their envelopes to.
Plan sessions
- Write a brief plan of how we will introduce the project, why we're working with them etc.
- Create information sheets to be given out at the sessions. We decided to use a bigger font on all documents which would be given to the group on this day.
- Thread up needles.
- Cut out swatches.
- Attach tags to swatches. We decided to put multiple tags on each swatch so that the samples could be passed around and worked into by more than one person, building up the time and emotion embedded in the fabric.
- Prepare geometric templates.
The envelopes we've created are, in my opinion, very cute. They're like little crafty presents which will eventually be developed into crafty gifts for the Home Starter Packs! I've included some images of these below.
The envelopes we've created are, in my opinion, very cute. They're like little crafty presents which will eventually be developed into crafty gifts for the Home Starter Packs! I've included some images of these below.
I think all three of us are VERY relieved now we've got everything prepared for the sessions and the envelopes are done! We were all taken aback at how long it took us to complete everything and now it's all packed up in boxes and envelopes it really doesn't look like we've done much!! I'm really pleased now we've done this though as although it doesn't physically look like much I know it's propelled us so much further forward with the project. Sampling time is upon us!!!!
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