The fun has begun!!!!!

Well our first day was wonderful. We started the day with breakfast and then headed to class.

The lids on the jars to the left is one of our projects

Frank showed us what we would be doing..a flower, a sewing book, and jar lid. He gave us the cloth we would punch on and we started drawing our designs out.

Frank showing how to hoop the fabric

Started on the flower and then progressed to the sewing book.  Oxford punch is not as hard as I thought it would be. I finally got the hang of it by the afternoon.

Ginger working on her jar lid

 We had a fun-filled day with lots of laughter and fun, but it did not end at 3:30pm. 

Frank showing how to finish the jar lid

 

We left to go  to Walmart to get supplies to make a jar doll that Frank had shown us. We ate dinner at Dairy Queen..no dipped cones though. We had a small blizzard instead. We headed back to the hotel to get our stuff together and head back to the classroom for some evening fun.  Frank was hooking on a rug project he had to finish by Friday. Ginger and I started on our dolls.  They turned out so cute, very primitive and will post pictures tomorrow. We stained them with coffee, vanilla, and tan Rit dye. For now Gladys Alma and Harriett Louise are hanging  in our closet upside down to dry.  Now some of the other ladies want to dolls so when we left they had started their dolls.

Back of my sewing book and flower

Back of Ginger's jar lid

Back of Ginger's sewing book, another jar lid and flower

 

 

Tomorrow will post pictures of our finished projects. Will be starting on our sheep basket.  It is so cute and can't wait to punch it.