Sunday, November 22, 2009
♥ Microteaching Week 15, Group 7 Poster
- Jessica
7:43:00 PM
♥ Microteaching Week 15, Group 7 Table Presentation
7:41:00 PM
♥ Microteaching Week 15, Group 7
Santa's Lil Supper
(Chewy Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies)
7:38:00 PM
♥ Microteaching Week 15, Group 7
Snowy Creme Pate
(Choux Pastry)
7:35:00 PM
♥ Microteaching Week 15, Group 7
Gateau de Fruit
(Fruit Flan Cake)
7:32:00 PM
♥ Microteaching Week 15, Group 7
12th Nite Scones
7:29:00 PM
♥ Microteaching Week 14, Group 6
Man tou for Chilli Crab
- Jessica
7:26:00 PM
♥ Microteaching Week 14, Group 6
Chilli Crab
7:23:00 PM
♥ Microteaching Week 14, Group 6
Otah
7:20:00 PM
♥ Microteaching Week 14, Group 6
Laksa
7:17:00 PM
♥ Microteaching Week 11, Group 5 Table Presentation
- Jessica
7:13:00 PM
♥ Microteaching Week 11, Group 5
Pan- fried Dumplings
7:11:00 PM
♥ Microteaching Week 11, Group 5
Vegetarian Lasagna
7:07:00 PM
♥ Microteaching Week 11, Group 5
Curry Puff
7:04:00 PM
♥ Microteaching Week 10, Group 4 Table Presentation
- Jessica
7:01:00 PM
♥ Microteaching Week 10, Group 4
Chicken Kebab
6:58:00 PM
♥ Microteaching Week 10, Group 4
Nasi Goreng
6:56:00 PM
♥ Microteaching Week 10, Group 4
Salmon and Vegetarian Quiche
6:51:00 PM
Friday, November 13, 2009
♥ Fried Chicken and Julienne!
I was looking through videos on youtube the past hour. I came across these videos which I find is very informative and easy to follow and learn.
First up is a short video on how to cook fried chicken. The end product looked really delicious and tempting, just like the ones served at KFC.
This was another video on julienning carrots which I found was very smartly organised and showcased. The method of cutting was precise and the "tucking in" of fingers while cutting was a good learning point as well..
Well, that's all for now. I shall be back. :D
*Claire
10:53:00 PM
The Textile module has come to an end. I've definitely enjoyed every bit of the module. Over the course of the module, we were taught these items:
We learnt embroidery using the Arista Sewing Machine. This is my first time exbroidering a picture onto a piece of cloth. It was quite time-consuming, due to the fact that I finally got this product after my 15th try! For embroidery, I personally feel that it is very important to use good quality threads. This will prevent breakage of threads halfway through the embroidering. After this experience, I am actually quite tempted to get my own embroidery machine with functions like these! $_$
This a box which has been applied with what we call a "napkin technique". It basically required pasting of different types of napkins of all shapes and sizes onto materials like wood, ceramic and even fabric! For our lesson, we were required to use wood. We first painted the box with 3 layers of paint. After which, we chose and decided on the napkins we wanted on our box and then pasted them on using a glue Potch. We waited about a week later before vanishing it to give it a shine!
This is a book cover which we sewed and painted. The main theme for this product was "butterflies". I didn't want to have a book cover with purely butterflies so I decided to give it a childish feel which was why I decided to add in the boy chasing after the butterflies as well the the 4-tier rainbow!
This is a handphone pouch which was sewn during one of the lessons. We were given a method list straight from a book which we later had to modify to make it better. It was an interesting experience because it showed that books may not always be 100% accurately and in-dept.
This is a picture of a flower using mostly scrap cloth on a piece of self-adhesive syrofoam board. When I first saw the teacher's sample, I was quite amazed by how beautiful it looked. The way Mrs Chia taught us this was very structured and so we all understood what we had to do. It was very important not to cut too deep into the self-adhesive syrofosm board as cutting too deep would have created a rift between the 2 affected parts. On the whole, this assignment was very fun to do, not to mention rather simple. This is definitely a great technique we can use for birthday and christmas gifts!
This is a tote bag which we sewed and then stencilled on. It was done basically by dapping small amounts of paint onto the fabric using stencils of different shapes and patterns. For this assignment, it was very important that we planned where we wanted to stencil the pictures on as not doing so would have created a mess.
This was done using "double-sided tape" for fabrics. The theme for this assignment was "bear". We were each given a picture of the same bear which we had to trace onto different scrap clothes to finally come up with this product. I decided to turn the bear into an athlete cos its my interest and I guess when you do something which are of interest to you, you willl tend to treasure it more. I guess this point can be taken note of when going out to schools to teach craft and tech in future. It will be very important to ensure that we teach students something which they have an interest in to create a form of ownership on the products they create.
This is a book cover which we sewed and painted. The main theme for this product was "butterflies". I didn't want to have a book cover with purely butterflies so I decided to give it a childish feel which was why I decided to add in the boy chasing after the butterflies as well the the 4-tier rainbow!
This is a handphone pouch which was sewn during one of the lessons. We were given a method list straight from a book which we later had to modify to make it better. It was an interesting experience because it showed that books may not always be 100% accurately and in-dept.
This is a picture of a flower using mostly scrap cloth on a piece of self-adhesive syrofoam board. When I first saw the teacher's sample, I was quite amazed by how beautiful it looked. The way Mrs Chia taught us this was very structured and so we all understood what we had to do. It was very important not to cut too deep into the self-adhesive syrofosm board as cutting too deep would have created a rift between the 2 affected parts. On the whole, this assignment was very fun to do, not to mention rather simple. This is definitely a great technique we can use for birthday and christmas gifts!
This is a tote bag which we sewed and then stencilled on. It was done basically by dapping small amounts of paint onto the fabric using stencils of different shapes and patterns. For this assignment, it was very important that we planned where we wanted to stencil the pictures on as not doing so would have created a mess.
This was done using "double-sided tape" for fabrics. The theme for this assignment was "bear". We were each given a picture of the same bear which we had to trace onto different scrap clothes to finally come up with this product. I decided to turn the bear into an athlete cos its my interest and I guess when you do something which are of interest to you, you willl tend to treasure it more. I guess this point can be taken note of when going out to schools to teach craft and tech in future. It will be very important to ensure that we teach students something which they have an interest in to create a form of ownership on the products they create.
*Claire
10:24:00 PM
♥ Fabric Painting
Fabric painting is a a procedure when painting is done on fabrics using fabric paint. The completed products makes good gifts or presents as the designs can be one-and-only and personalized.
The materials needed is also relatively easy and cheap to get.
- The fabric that you want to work on (clothes, shoes etc)
- Chosen desire to work with
- Fabric paints
- Paint brushes with palette and water
- Hair-dryer
- Fabric marker(optional)
Here are some examples of fabric painting on apparels.
Shoes
Book Covers
Clothes
Signing off: Elizabeth Goh
9:04:00 PM
♥ Nakin Technique
Here is a video that shows a step=by-step demo on napkin technique on different surfaces.
Napkin techniques can be used for ceramics, wood, glass to decorate a plain surface to make it presentable.
Materials needed includes:
The napkin chosen, glue, brush, scissors, hair-dryer, paint(optional)
Have fun working with this to create presents and gifts for your friends or family members.
Signing off: Elizabeth Goh
8:43:00 PM
♥ Jessica's Book Cover 2
7:27:00 PM
♥ Jessica's Book Cover
1. Sew book cover.
2. Use fabric paints to paint desired pattern.
7:20:00 PM
♥ Jessica's Embroidery Towel 2
7:11:00 PM
♥ Jessica's Embroidery Towel
Steps:
1. Attach embroidery hoop on towel.
2. Pin plastic on towel.
3. Attach embroidery hoop to machine.
4. Select pattern and position.
5. Start sewing.
6. Cut connecting threads neatly on towel once embroidery is done.
7:02:00 PM
♥ Jessica's T- Shirt Bear 2
6:59:00 PM
♥ Jessica's T- Shirt Bear
Steps:
1. The bear is traced onto the fabric pieces using black tracing paper.
2. Cut the fabric pieces out and iron onto bonding paper.
3. Cut fabric pieces + bonding paper out.
4. Arrange pieces of the bear together on the T-shirt and iron bear onto T-shirt.
5. Sew edges of bear with decorative stitches from sewing machine to permanently attach the bear on the T- Shirt.
6:37:00 PM
Monday, November 9, 2009
♥ Recycle
There are two different ways you can recylce your used fabrics..
first way is to use bonding (some thing like double sided but this if for fabrics)
Cut the outlines of the product and cut accordingly and make sure you iron according to the design that you require.
Add in the outlines, sew the sides, give them eyes and notes and dont forget the patters.
and it is ready!
first way is to use bonding (some thing like double sided but this if for fabrics)
Cut the outlines of the product and cut accordingly and make sure you iron according to the design that you require.
Add in the outlines, sew the sides, give them eyes and notes and dont forget the patters.
and it is ready!
Another way is to use used fabrics that you do not need them anymore..
first, choose the design you like
secondly, draw the outlines of the design
cut the design out and know what different types of colours of fabric you want to use.
Then add in the fabrics according to you what you require and it will look like below..
Use the cutter to cut the paper above the foam; do not cut it too deep. cut gently, use the back tip of the cutter to tuck in the fabrics. Happy trying! it's really fun and anti-stress for me!
Final outcome will look like this:
Signing off;
Signing off;
Hana
5:34:00 PM
♥ Digitizing
Working with Arista
First of all, we need to choose our own design from the net.
Here is my design that i chose.
After choosing the desired design you want, transfer to bernina software. Import the picture in, set the colour mode to 6 colours. Then use your magic wand to change the settings of what you want to sew first.
You need to sew the inside of the design then lastly you allow them to sew the outline.
Once you are done with the design, save it and transfer to the sewing machine.
Then, once you decided to sew using the hoop that you chosen, start pressing the undo arrow and it will inform you continue sewing.
The machine will stop once there's a need to change of colour thread.
After the sewing; it will look like what you had chosen earlier..
Dont forget to cut off the threads.. and this is the outcome if you do not sew the inner first. It is always advicesable to sew the inside then the outer of the design.
Signing off;
Hana
First of all, we need to choose our own design from the net.
Here is my design that i chose.
After choosing the desired design you want, transfer to bernina software. Import the picture in, set the colour mode to 6 colours. Then use your magic wand to change the settings of what you want to sew first.
You need to sew the inside of the design then lastly you allow them to sew the outline.
Once you are done with the design, save it and transfer to the sewing machine.
Then, once you decided to sew using the hoop that you chosen, start pressing the undo arrow and it will inform you continue sewing.
The machine will stop once there's a need to change of colour thread.
After the sewing; it will look like what you had chosen earlier..
Dont forget to cut off the threads.. and this is the outcome if you do not sew the inner first. It is always advicesable to sew the inside then the outer of the design.
Signing off;
Hana
4:44:00 PM
