Thespian Thursday

So the school production is over! All that work! Now just a memory!

I managed to get some snaps of the costumes, but from a distance

Good night!

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Sweat Shop Slog

Dress Rehearsal tomorrow = panic today, followed by marathon production of extra costumes!

Just keep sewing, just keep sewing!

Just a few pairs of trousers, and a few tops

And just a few more

That's it, I'm done - time for bed!!!

I just hope everyone has a costume !

Real life (including replying to comments and reading other peoples blogs) will restart after the final performance!!!

School for Sewing

I *still* haven't got much sewing done recently, but we certainly managed loads at school yesterday!

I'm teaching the year 4 class how to design for the embroidery machine (and they have managed to teach me new stuff about the software I have been using for nearly 8 years!!!)

A's first design on the computer

And stitching

After school I had a few hours free, so Valerie brought in her quilt (her first quilt, that we started over the Easter hols), and we got it finished:

That happy face says it all!

And then I spent two evening hours with half a dozen mums, a grandma and an ex-pupil learning how to read paper patterns, and how to cut all sorts of corners (we are looking for quantity over quality!) to make costumes - the school production of Aladdin needs 100 pairs of trousers, and 50 each of strappy tops and waist coats!

Three more weeks, we can do this (I was pinning trouser legs together in my dreams last night!)