The stitching is mostly being fitted around the daughters on school holiday 🙂 We all went to the Last Shift Banner picnic on Saturday afternoon. It was great to see the school banner on display with its bigger brothers and sisters from local collieries! The picnic was in full swing when we got there, withContinue reading “Summer Time and the stitching is…”
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The Last Shift – all done!
I have so enjoyed this project, meeting and working with the children at the Primary School and using their designs to complete the banner. So now you can see how it has all fitted together, I’ll have to add a picture of the reverse but this is the front. There was a lovely ‘Oooh’ fromContinue reading “The Last Shift – all done!”
The Last Shift
Construction begins… All the workshops are done, so now it’s time to transform piles of print and spiral dyed fabric into a brilliant banner. I’ve dyed the background fabric and the ribbon streamers. All the scroll text is cut out. I cut the letters with bondaweb so they’ll stay in position when I stitch them.Continue reading “The Last Shift”
Screen Printing from scratch
For the next stage of ‘The Last Shift’ banner project, I’m going to ask the children to screen print dates from the era that Greenside Colliery was open. Screen printing can be very technical and complex…or it can be an improvisation challenge- we’re going for the latter! We’ll be using screens made from old pictureContinue reading “Screen Printing from scratch”
The Last Shift begins…
Safely back from the excitements of Essex and Carters Steam Fair (more to follow soon!) Monday was the first day of the ‘Last Shift Project’ to make a primary school banner – and what a busy day it was! Working with toddlers (and their grown ups!), two nursery classes and a reception class, we ‘spiralContinue reading “The Last Shift begins…”
Donna Cheshire Textiles 