apparel small business owners

4-H Clothing Project Training 2007

Pamela J. Brown, Ph.D.

Program Coordinator

What you will learn in this session:

Ideas for conducting 4-H Clothing projects

Leader trainingProject guides and resourcesTexas ideas that work

Preparing for 4-H Clothing Contests2007 GuidelinesEligibility Deadlines

What you will learn:

Resources that help you: Web, print

Supportive C&T activities Advisory Board

Clothing Camp

Community Service

Where to find answers to your questions

Implementing clothing projects

What can clothing projects teach? Planning/Organizing, Goal Setting, Service Learning, Critical Thinking,

Problem Solving, Decision Making, Marketable Skills, Resource

management, Creativity, Self-Motivation, Community Service Volunteering, Team work

Home Sewing Association Research

What’s in a project?

What’s in a project?

Clothing Capers9-11 TX

Clothes that Click12-16 TX

Sewing Expressions – Nat’l

Fabric & Fashion Design - TX

Old clothing guide, useful activities

Content / Points to train leaders

Experiential model

Understanding age group

Subject

Teaching ideas

Activities

Take home – workbook

Print from 4-H web site – LARGE file!!

Ideas that work

D1 Traveling Pants

D8 4-H Fashion Retreat

MSVs as trainers

Clothing Camp – alternative years- 2008 Dallas / NYC

Bexar Co. – summer clothing workshops by MSVDistrict 12 – Sew Camps in summer

ETADallas.com – weekend seminars of creative sewing expertsCreative Sewing Exposition – San Antonio Jan.

Allow leaders to practice

Don’t assume sewers know how to teach

Encourage leaders to ‘watch one, do one, teach one’

Expand their ‘horizons’

Recognize leaders

Work in small groups, team teach…

Project ideas

HP fabric print projects from Sewing Expressions (national 4-H site)

Post Consumer Recycling Textiles PDF - Available in English and Spanish Each segment includes a lesson and activities.

Lesson 1: Evaluate the Garment Lesson 2: Little Changes to Make Used Garments Wearable Again Lesson 3: Rip Them Up: Save the Parts! Lesson 4: Big Chunks Into Potholders, Pillows and Tote Bags! Lesson 5: ’Tis the Season: Christmas Socks from Jeans Lesson 6: Long and Short Narrow Strips: Tie Knots, Crochet or Weave! Lesson 7: Collect the Clutter! Lesson 8: Throws, Placemats and Table Runners Lesson 9: Let’s Use Those Short Strips for Potholders, Throws and Quilts! Lesson 10: Make a Horse, Of Course!

Photos of recycled products Reference article and citations for further reading:Steinbring, Y. and Rucker, M. (2003). Utilization of Post-Consumer Textiles and Clothing, Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences, 95 (2), pp.33–37. Suggested audiences for the Textile Recycling Programs:

4-H leaders and project members Master Sewing Volunteers and new sewers TEEA clubs Special interest groups interested in post-consumer recycling products Small business idea presentations

Recycled denim – MSV leader, Sheila Harris, Bexar Co.

Resources for YOUFinding experts:

Sewing machine dealersTEEA membersAmerican Sewing GuildsFabric storesApparel small business owners Former 4-HersSchool FCS teachers/parents/grandparents

Learning the subject:Master Sewing Volunteer online web course – get it while it’s free! http://fcs.tamu.edu/clothing/master_sewing_volunteer/index.php

ResourcesWEB

FCS website/clothing & textiles– http://www.fcs.tamu.edu

» Link to 4-H clothing website– Agent only site

» Lesson plans» Post Consumer Textile Recycling Lessons

Home Sewing Association– http://www.sewing.org

National 4-H Curricula http://n4hccs.org

Search for “teaching kids to sew” on Google or Dogpile (metasearch)

More web resources

Other state’s Extension materialsOhio – excellent fiber fact sheets

Kentucky – good activities

Nebraska – Quilt Quest

Washington – mega sewing expo

California - environment

Quilt activity

School learning – 4th grade Ohio

Sewing quilt pieces to make a quilt

Learning hand sewing and sewing machine

"Quilting allows students to incorporate many subject areas. We use this project to emphasize history, mathematics and science, and, of course, allow them to practice the basic skills of sewing and creativity," says 4-H Extension Program Assistant Jenny Morlock.

Resources

PrintEducational Resource Library

Extension Publications – alteration series, Going to Work

Public Library or Web– Threads Magazine– Sew News

Fiber/fabric teaching resource

Fabric & Fashion Design Resource

Book:

Nine Heads – fashion illustration

Accessories

Drawing textiles

4-H Clothing Contests

Fabric and Fashion Design (June 5)

Fashion Show (June 6)

Clothing Method Demonstration

(June 7)

Deadlines for Entries:Send ALL to Toby Lepley by May 7, 2007. NO LATE ENTRIES ACCEPTED

Supportive 4-H Clothing opportunities

4-H Clothing and Textiles Advisory BoardQuilt challenge

Narrator contest

Stage Design Contest

For 2008:

Board apps due Dec. 28, 2008

Narrator and Stage Design, Jan. 31, 2008

Contest Donors

Identify potential donors for all contestsPrizes – sewing machines/sergers/supplies

Cash – short term and long term support

Thank you cards – spelling, grammar, example of learning and use

“I have questions; who has answers?”

Pam Brown – Program CoordinatorEmail – pbrown@ag.tamu.edu

Emergency: » Cell: 806-577-2183 » Home: 806-798-7927

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