Steven will your class be all sewing or a mix of home economics including
cooking, shopping. Sounds like a good sewing class! I know that most of
"my" sewing turns out to be mending, and I always clean the machine after
each use. My sewing is for SC summers and not the cooler Alaska temps so
your students will be sewing warmer items of clothing. In my sewing class
at University we had a notebook of samples of different
sewing---buttonholes, inner curves, outer curves, different seams, joining
pieces of cloth, and it was graded at the end of the class year-- like a
term paper-- to show we knew what we were doing. I hope you enjoy this last
year of teaching your students! You might even decide to teach one more
year.
Good luck with this! Barbara in already warm SC

"Steven Cook" wrote in message ...
Well, over the past 23 years I've taught all office subjects of the modern
era, i.e. not shorthand and the like though, and speech and social studies
and some math and yearbook and spanish 1. This year in year 24 I will be
teaching beginning sewing one hour a day. I'm excited and terrified at
the same time. Working on some projects this summer to see how they work.
I've quilted loads, basic other sewing, not so much.

I do know that several students have signed up for the class since I'm
teaching it rather than who taught it this last year. That is interesting
too. We'll see how it goes. Who knows what year 25, and the last year,
will hold.

Steven
Alaska


"Bobbie Sews More" wrote in message ...
I've been busy sewing summer play clothes for GD and teaching her sewing
at the same time. That means, at 12 yr. old the first part of July, she
has been helping me and learning at the same time. This week end we will
be making matching headbands, and maybe quilting material to make a tote
bag for gym clothes when school starts back in August and also a quilted
bag for her electronic things. We are both having fun! This is On
Topic since we will be quilting cloth for the bags! Also, we are saving
scraps to make a quilt for her bed. In the past few years I've taught a
few people to sew and to quilt. What fun!
Barbara in SC