I had decided to share my new hobby/passion, quilting, with my grandson David's Kindergarten class. He had a small class, just 6 students, with a wonderful teacher, Julie. Julie welcomed me, and my sewing machine, into the classroom for about 3 months of work with the kids.
I started by telling them a little about the history of quilting, and showing them the only quilt I had made so far. Here they are looking at a packet of 3" squares I received from far-away lands for my Y2K quilt - I swapped with 80 different people a set of 25 squares, with a signature square, to get 2000 (mostly) unique squares for my quilt. 
| The kids are all decorating a 6" square of bleached muslin, ironed onto wax paper for stability, with fabric crayons. 
| Even Julie is making a square. 
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Me too, but I'm behind the camera here of course :) 
| I wanted to take a pic of all of the quilt creators to put on iron-on fabric transfers for the quilt. Here's Stacy. 
| Miles 
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Clara... 
| this is a better picture - the joys of a digital camera! 
| My own David... 
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Mr. Goofball, of course. By the end of this project he really got good at having me in the classroom without it totally hyping him up. 
| This is the one we eventually used. 
| Asmara took a nice one in one shot. 
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Scott, David's best friend, was equally hammy... 
| ...this pose didn't really do it either - I got him later though. 
| and Julie! 
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Here's David's drawn square. It hasn't been ironed yet, so the colors haven't gotten vibrant. 
| I wanted a picture of the whole class for the quilt as well. Stacy's making the peace sign... 
| I don't know how professional school photographers do this with 20+ kids! Miles and Scott are looking off to the right, and Clara has her eyes closed. 
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Miles is still looking somewhere else, and I must have had the kids say something to purse their lips, since several of them are doing that. 
| David is singing or something goofy, Clara has her eyes closed again! 
| Good enough! 
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Finally managed to get a good pic of Scott for the quilt, with a real smile! 
| The boys demanded a picture of their pile up...who am I to argue? 
| Stacy and her quilt square. 
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Scott is behind his square there, really. 
| We still needed a decent picture of me for the quilt. This wasn't it, btw... 
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