Learning to use an industrial sewing machine:
Did you know these things go like the clappers? 3,000 stitches/minute. That's 50 a second. Fifty stitches a second. OMG. That'll go right through your finger before you can say 'Ouch'.
Learning to make a webbed footstool, and these are the same techniques we'll apply to our child's chair:
Images copyright Lora Jones*
Watching with amazement as Madam Late turns up variously at 8.45, 8.45 and 8.50, when the rest of us manage to get there for 8.00am;
Wondering how my back is going to cope with all the standing up, and find that it's actually not so bad as long as I sit down between bouts of working and the demonstrations...
Discovering that Stanley knives are really sharp and will slice your finger open at the drop of hat (it was just a shallow cut, more of a scratch really. What a baby!)
Wondering how the canteen can display one price for toast and vegemite, then charge an extra 20c to actually toast the bread. Hmm. Still trying to work that one out.
Enjoying myself mightily. It's so nice to spend the whole day using my hands to make something!
Finding out I can bear the feel of Hessian as long as I don't have to rub it on my skin. Yuck.
In other news, 'm going to start taking my compact camera to school with me, so I can document all the stages of the footrest - webbing, hessian, foam, wadding, foam, foam, calico, fabric.
I'm going to cover my child's chair in this:
which has a dark brown background & MGF Kaz is going to buy it from me for her niece, who is currently expecting her second bub. I think it'll be spectacular!
The footrest? Haven't decided yet. Maybe some of my Joel Dewberry blue & brown stuff, so maybe this:
And now, I must away to visit My Best Friend and the Kidlets, one of whom is, like Mr Golightly,a bit under the weather.
Ciao for now!
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