I chose to make a ribbon skirt. My family attended residential schools and because of that we didint learn too much about our native teachings. The past couple years i have been learning more through my mother who is Cree, Paige Armstrong and Rose. I was very excited to be able to make something in this class that had a lot of meaning to me.
I talked and worked with a lot of new people I met in this course to help me learn more about sewing and to get to know each other. My group worked together on many assignments we do in class and helping each other with seam samples. My group helped me complete my project too by giving me tips and showing me some techniques I didn’t know before such as how to wind a bobbin.
My artifact is my first sewing project, elastic waist shorts. I developed my critical thinking skills throughout this project, I ran into a problem right away when I was pinning my pattern to my fabric and realized I didn’t have enough fabric to make what I originally had planned so I had decided to make shorts instead so I wouldn’t need as much fabric. later I ran into a problem when I sewed the wrong part of my fabric and I had to cut it off but because I gave myself more fabric when I started so I was able to make those mistakes because of my planning before hand my project was able to still turn out without the sizing being off.
Elastic waist shorts