Holiday decoration

LI: To design and make a holiday decoration that fits the client brief

For this term, The LS2 students designed and created Holiday Decorations using Hand Sewing. We started off  by asking questions to our client who was Mr Johnston.Then we created a DLO(Brainstorm) and a (Mood Board) with the information that can help us understand what we are going to make. Brainstorming the information helped us learn more about How,Why,What,Shape and Who. The Materials and equipment we used were Threads,felt,Cotton,String,Buttons,googly eyes and Paper.  We needed to make sure that our decorations were 10cm big, so we started off by getting a ruler and measuring the length and the width. For my first decoration I decided to create Hanukkah star  We used paper and a drawing pencil to help us create our first design. But firstly I needed to learn the type of sewing we’re doing. We learned three different types of hand sewing which is Blanket Stitch,Outline Stitch and a Running Stitch by learning how to use the different types of stitching we practiced onto a 10cm square(made out of felt). After practising more and more we decided to create our decoration by creating our decoration we planned about. Then after creating all the planning and understanding what we need to do we created our first design. The first design I decided to create was a I really enjoyed creating this decoration because it represented the holiday celebration we were creating, I really enjoyed working with others and working together to create the design. After completing my first design I decided to create a another one which was a fish I think I’ve improved a lot in my stitching, I think