Be Inspired, Part 4…Teachers
To return to my progress on Be Inspired, the next figure I tackled was a teacher. In our selection process, we realized that some professions inspire: doctors, nurses, teachers. Since this is for a school, of course we had to include teachers (and on the first panel, please!) as inspiring figures for kids. Using a photograph of a classroom, I modified it to have the whiteboards in use in the middle school, wood floors (in the old 5th/6th grade wing of the building), and look sorta like a Camden-Rockport Middle School classroom. On the blackboard, I will quilt “I touch the future, I teach” which is attributed to the late teacher-astronaut Christa McAuliffe, but I expect is a phrase that has been around a while.
This section took forever to complete…there were so many little pieces, and during the quilting so many thread-color-changes, that it took a full day to just do the fusing/collaging in fabric. Here is the initial sketch/tracing:
And with the classroom pinned onto the quilt:
July 20th, 2009 at 11:08 am
I am SO impressed with what you are creating.
July 20th, 2009 at 1:22 pm
Progress indeed! I think you’re going to make it!
Good going — but save a little energy for next Sunday …
July 21st, 2009 at 8:35 am
WOW, Sarah, what an undertaking. I had no idea what you were up to. I am very impressed!
Robin
July 21st, 2009 at 2:54 pm
Oh, Sarah, that is so ambitious. You’ve done a wonderful job and I look forward to seeing the entire finished quilt. You are a wonder.
July 21st, 2009 at 7:20 pm
I am inspired, Thank you for letting us see your progress.
July 22nd, 2009 at 8:01 am
Sarah, This is an amazing project, just beautiful! Thank you for sharing!