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I just had to post this very cute clay horse one of my students made. It has personality! She worked very hard on it over several sessions.

Almost summer!

I finished my two week soundboard quilt residency. The students were fifth graders and the theme was Colonial America. It was very difficult working with the soundboard fabric. There was no time to sew it, and it was hard to iron so fusible web didn’t work well. Elmer’s didn’t stick to it. We finally used hot glue (the safer lower temperature kind) and that worked OK. Each quilt is 45 inches tall. After spring break we will get them up on the walls.

Great school; very accomodating teachers and well behaved kids!

Drop spindles with Grades 5 to 7 at the Monroe Art Day. We didn’t have any trouble making the spindles (last year this was more difficult). Doweling must have gotten a little smaller. All of the kids made plyed commercial yarn successfully and quite a few made yarn from prepared fleece. A bit lumpy and thick, but that is more authentically Salish after all. I had an excellent teen volunteer helper!

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This is the project that the primary students completed. Northwest Coast Art made from construction paper.

Friday’s art project with third graders. These two classes did the very best job of making leaf bowls of any class I have worked with. The difference: the teachers. Two very strong teachers and a well prepared class.

No more knitting! (well not much anyway). Yesterday I made turtles with four classes of kindergarten and first graders. The kids did a great job and the turtles are cute!