Today Katie and I returned to
Lozells Methodist Church for the second workshop with the Ladies from the Dorcas group. At the last session the ladies said that they enjoyed doing crafts, and making things and Vila said that she had always
wanted to try putting photos onto fabric, so we brought along the scanner, printer, and materials bought from the local Sari shops, and Katie brought along her iron, so that we could create shopping bags with the ladies, adorned with scanned in pictures of their hands. We filled in the 'give me your hand' postcards last time, and the ladies wrote down their wishes for the area, so this time we wrote on the
postcards about the ways we use our hands.
At first their was a bit of reluctance to scan hands in, as the technology looked a bit complicated, and the description of the stages we would need to go through to produce the bags sounded long-winded and Nessa joked 'Are you trying to steal my identity?' when we mentioned scanning hands into the computer, but then everyone got involved and we did it in stages. Nessa wanted to go first:
First Nessa chose the fabric that she wanted for her background, then we got Nessa to put her hands in the scanner and keep really still,
once
everyones hands were scanned in we filled in the postcards, each of the ladies decided what they wanted to write on their bags and then we added the texts to the images.
Then we printed out the posters onto transfer paper.
Next thing was to iron the images on to the tote bags - and this is where we hit a snag.
We ironed and ironed, and ironed, but nothing seemed to happen. The green iron motif on the back of the paper was supposed to turn orange when ready, but it never did. The first bag to be ironed was Esther's, and the ironing of that particular bag took 30 minutes. Eventually Katie and Esther managed to peel off the paper backing, but a small area of the black print was left behind on the paper.
We had brought a bag of buttons with us, so Esther used the button as a decoration to cover up the blip. We spent the next hour ironing the rest of the ladies images onto bags, chatting and generally having a great time.
The slight reserve when confronted by the equipment at the beginning of the morning had gone by the end, and Margaret and Vila asked if we also do computer classes, as they are really keen to expand their skills. We had a really great time with the ladies and Margaret, Vila, Esther, Nessa, Tina and Mary left quite pleased with the shoppers they had made.
Thanks for having us Dorcas group!
Today Katie and I returned to Lozells Methodist Church for the second workshop with the Ladies from the Dorcas group. At the last session the ladies said that they enjoyed doing crafts, and making things and Vila said that she had always wanted to try putting photos onto fabric, so we brought along the scanner, printer, and materials bought from the local Sari shops, and Katie brought along her iron, so that we could create shopping bags with the ladies, adorned with scanned in pictures of their hands. We filled in the 'give me your hand' postcards last time, and the ladies wrote down their wishes for the area, so this time we wrote on the postcards about the ways we use our hands.
At first their was a bit of reluctance to scan hands in, as the technology looked a bit complicated, and the description of the stages we would need to go through to produce the bags sounded long-winded and Nessa joked 'Are you trying to steal my identity?' when we mentioned scanning hands into the computer, but then everyone got involved and we did it in stages. Nessa wanted to go first:
First Nessa chose the fabric that she wanted for her background, then we got Nessa to put her hands in the scanner and keep really still, 
once everyones hands were scanned in we filled in the postcards, each of the ladies decided what they wanted to write on their bags and then we added the texts to the images. 
Then we printed out the posters onto transfer paper.
Next thing was to iron the images on to the tote bags - and this is where we hit a snag.
We ironed and ironed, and ironed, but nothing seemed to happen. The green iron motif on the back of the paper was supposed to turn orange when ready, but it never did. The first bag to be ironed was Esther's, and the ironing of that particular bag took 30 minutes. Eventually Katie and Esther managed to peel off the paper backing, but a small area of the black print was left behind on the paper.
We had brought a bag of buttons with us, so Esther used the button as a decoration to cover up the blip. We spent the next hour ironing the rest of the ladies images onto bags, chatting and generally having a great time.
The slight reserve when confronted by the equipment at the beginning of the morning had gone by the end, and Margaret and Vila asked if we also do computer classes, as they are really keen to expand their skills. We had a really great time with the ladies and Margaret, Vila, Esther, Nessa, Tina and Mary left quite pleased with the shoppers they had made.
Thanks for having us Dorcas group!
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