Now these spanglers weren’t on the list that has been published – our last group and they certainly pushed up our numbers of participants.  I will get a last and updated list out before the Winterthur exhibit.  There seems to be just some sort of karma that the last people to stitch on the pieces other than us lead team pinch hitters were a group of children.  Why else should we volunteer so much time on this project.

So the school set me up in a little office in the main office area and the call went out to the teachers as well.  They have a floater and so she went around and any staff that wanted to try ran in too.  Because it was spangles, we could get at least two on the frame at once.  After I started out the first group, I didn’t have much work to do – each group of kids would teach the next kid or teacher to come in for a turn.  And those who have done this before know that one spangle doesn’t count – you have to do several!  I gave each kid a few spangles in an envelope to take home to show their family (had to send an explanatory email out too – what comes home in the evening burbles is sometimes a bit choppy).  They loved this so much that I am thinking about doing an afterschool activity next year on embroidery at the school.  Maybe even E-Textile embroidery – embroider your own light-up circuit.

Ripples.  They keep going in all directions.

Tricia