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Room 5 Quilt

14 Apr 2011

Its done! Amanda has done a terrific job. We’ll be auctioning this beauty off to raise money for Clarendon. If you want to take the quilt home it might cost you – but you won’t know, unless you come to the Clarendon Auction this Saturday night! And if you’d like a last minute raffle ticket – let me know!

Here’s the way the kids contributed to their quilt:
We started by asking them to draw a tree. Amanda, our art teacher Ellen, and I all agreed that ‘nature’ might be a good theme for the quilt. Beyond the tree, the kids were invited to add other fun natural elements.
The line drawings were done in pencil, on canvas that I taped to cardboard at the suggestion of Ellen. That was genius because then the kids had a flat surface that was easy to work with. Then Amanda and I traced the drawings in Sharpie.

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In Room 5’s art class, Ellen provided us with some terrific fabric crayons that the kids used to color in their drawings. We limited their color palate in the name area, to attempt a more cohesive look, but also to give them a parameter they had to work within.

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After this step, I removed all the tape and ironed the squares so that the heat would lock the color in to the fabric.

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Finally, Amanda took home all of the squares (22!) and began sewing the quilt. She sourced the fabric, cut, battened and sewed it all together. I’ve made a quilt before, with the help of my mom, and let me tell you it is not easy! I think she rocked it:

(front and back)

So come to the auction and bid on this baby!
What a wonderful keepsake of the kid’s first year of school.

Kitchen Sink

13 Mar 2011

Photos from here and there… (click to enlarge)


We need to refinish the floors. Soon!


Stripes.


Still lovin’ the bathtime.


Happy to play with Chief


Returning to the scene of the crime. And not even acting guilty about it!


Oscar with his art teacher Ellen Weinstein. (love her!)


This hummingbird was so bent out of shape about the hawk!
The hawk refused to get his feathers ruffled.


Babylove.

Van Gogh’s Bedroom

23 Feb 2011

Oscar’s kindergarten class studied Vincent Van Gogh last fall.
This little work of art came home at least two months ago, in the backpack, but I am just posting it now. I don’t know how Ellen (the art teacher) had the students go about painting the rooms. I can make an educated guess that they weren’t supposed to copy the room outright. I’ll try and ask her about the process tomorrow.

And, just in case you want to reference the real thing:

The Bedroom (French: La Chambre à coucher)

Recent Artwork by Oscar

07 Jan 2011

Above, this is titled “Winter Solstice”. He did this in Ms. Ruth’s class, during Art.

Above, titled “Jail”, Oscar demonstrates his preferred medium, pen and violence on paper.

Drawn entirely by Oscar, with me telling where to put each line. We used a toy king figurine for a model. Oscar decided on the cross decorations himself. This was a homework assignment on the letter K.

Above, drawn by Chief, with unknown amount of input by Oscar. Much loved by Oscar – infact it’s his favorite work in the whole house. They did this together during the Christmas Sleepover. The model used was a real toy model of an X-wing, a gift from the Mollards. Thanks Chief for putting that one together!