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Week 6: Soft Engineering: Sewing & Plush Design
July 25 - July 29
Instructor: Amy Brown


There’s something you touch every day that is an engineering marvel: fabric! Sewing and pattern design is as common as the shirt on your back and the sheets you sleep on. How are these things made? We will learn the basic skills to sew fabric and experiment in turning 2D drawings into 3D fabric objects. If it exists, we can make a stuffed version of it!  Skills to look forward to include sewing, embroidery, pattern design, mending and more.​
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Monday (July 25th)
9:00am            Housekeeping and intros - Hi, I’m Amy!

9:10am            Ice Breaker activity: Sewing tools memory game
                 ●      Take a few minutes for the group to inspect a tray of objects. Touch, but no talking.
                 ●      In pairs, campers write down from memory all the objects they can remember. Quiet voices!
                 ●      Hold up each object and explain what it’s used for. Each team gets a point for every correct memory.

9:30am            Activity/Lesson: Let’s make a ball (pre-cut cotton circles, pre-cut felt circles, stuffing, thread, needles)
                 ●      Turn a 2D circle of fabric into a 3D sphere (ball)
                 ●      Learn to make a running stitch and tie a knot

​10:00am                                     BREAK

10:15am          Activity/Lesson: Patching and Appliqué (fabric markers)
                 ●      Cover opening on ball with a patch
                 ●      Learn the whip stitch
                 ●      Decorate pincushion with fabric marker

10:30am          Activity/Lesson:  What in the world is fabric?
                 ●      Types of fabric
                 ●      How many different sewn objects can we find on ourselves?
                 ●      What else do you see in the room?
                 ●      wovens, knits, felt, leather, ???

10:40am          Activity/Lesson: Sewing with knits (pre-cut fleece rectangles)
                 ●      Different from woven fabrics - it’s stretchy!
                 ●      Sew rectangle and stuff
                 ●      How are the finished shapes different from each other?

11:00am          Discussion:  Stuffed ANYTHING
                 ●      If you could make a stuffie of anything in the world, what would it be?
                 ●      What about this object drives your curiosity?
                 ●      What are some challenges you might face in making it?

11:30am                                     LUNCH  

12:15pm          Continue morning activity 

12:45pm          TINKER TIME          Intro to Tinker Journal
                                    Activity option of CHICKEN PILLOW (pre-cut cotton rectangles, felt, stuffing)

​2:15pm            ​Snack
2:30pm            Daily Camper Assessment
2:45pm            Clean Up
3:00pm            Camper Pick Up

​Tuesday (July 26th)
9:00am            Warm Up:  Sew what?! (paper, pencil, markers)
                 ●      Now that we have learned some stitches, what do you want to make?
                 ●      Spend time sketching in journals and asking questions

9:15am            Activity/Lesson: Magic Knot (needle, thread)
                 ●      Learn how to tie a perfect knot
                 ●      Threading basics
                 ●      Tool safety basics

9:30am            Activity/Lesson: 3D shapes in fabric (stuffed animal, pre-cut felt rectangles, stuffing, thread, needle)
                 ●      Examine a toy and sketch the different parts using only basic shapes
                 ●      Legs and arms: Make a simple felt cylinder using the whip stitch
                 ●      Add cylinder to bottom of the pincushion: a mushroom!
                 ●      How to cut the right circle for a cylinder

10:15am                                     BREAK

10:30am          Activity/Lesson:  How will we make it? (paper, pencils, rulers)
                 ●      brainstorm what shapes we’ll need to make our sketches into 3D objects
                 ●      Transform our earlier sketches into a sewing pattern
                 ●      Learn to add width to narrow parts of your pattern
                 ●      Add complexity with gussets and darts as needed

11:00am          Activity/Lesson:  Cut it out! Try out our new patterns (scissors, various fabrics, pins, needle/thread)
                 ●      Cut out pattern and pin to double fabric
                 ●      Trace and cut out- keep fabric pinned together
                 ●      Begin sewing
11:30am                                     LUNCH  

12:15pm          Continue morning activity

12:45pm          TINKER TIME
                                    Activity option: Needle-felted wool shapes (felting pads, needles, wool, cookie cutters)

​2:15pm            ​Snack
2:30pm            Daily Camper Assessment
2:45pm            Clean Up
3:00pm            Camper Pick Up

​Wednesday (July 27th)
9:00am            Activity/Lesson: Repeating surface patterns (square paper tiles, scissors, pencils, markers, clear tape)
                 ●      Create a pattern that can be repeated or tiled, such as on fabric
                 ●      Sketch on paper, cut and reassemble
                 ●      Add color to design (will revisit on Thursday)

9:45am            Activity/Lesson:  Continue sewing patterns from Tuesday (needle, thread, scissors, pins)
                 ●      Seams on outside or inside? When to flip
                 ●      How to add in a gusset

10:15am                                     BREAK

10:30am          Guest Speaker: Stephanie Metz, sculptor and pattern-maker

11:30am                                     LUNCH  

12:15pm          Continue morning activity

12:45pm          TINKER TIME
                                    ​Activity option: more ways to make a ball. And beanbags! (cotton fabric, beans, stuffing)​

​2:15pm            ​Snack
​2:30pm            Daily Camper Assessment
2:45pm            Clean Up
3:00pm            Camper Pick Up

​Thursday (July 28th)
9:00am            Warm Up: Fashion in the future (recycled materials, pencils, journal)
                 ●      What will people wear in the future? Write/sketch in journal.
                 ●      What enhancements would make clothing more helpful?
                 ●      Turn a waste product (plastic bottles, old tires) into clothing- what would it look like?

9:30am            Activity/Lesson: Stuffed Animal Dissection (stuffed animals, seam ripper, paper, pencil, scissors)
                 ●      How to use a seam ripper
                 ●      Remove one piece: head, arm, leg
                 ●      How is a stuffie made? What is the inside like?
                 ●      What kinds of stitches go into a factory-made product?

10:15am                                    BREAK

10:30am          Activity/Lesson: Continue dissection (paper, scissors, pencils)
                 ●      Focus on one piece and take it apart completely
                 ●      Take notes on all steps
                 ●      Trace pieces on paper- take care to label each step
                 ●      Cut pattern out of fabric and sew a new part
                 ●      Individual instruction on sewing machine         

11:30am                                     LUNCH  

12:15pm          Continue morning activity

12:45pm          TINKER TIME         
                                    ​Activity option: embroidery samplers (hoops, floss, needles, cotton fabric)

​2:15pm            ​Snack
​2:30pm            Daily Camper Assessment
2:45pm            Clean Up
3:00pm            Camper Pick Up

​Friday (July 29th)
9:00am            Warm Up: Challenges in Stuffie Dissection
                 ●      Which part was fun, which was frustrating?
                 ●      Have you had a stuffie break? What did you do?

9:15am            Activity/Lesson: Mix and Match!
                 ●      Trade with other campers for new parts for your deconstructed stuffie
                 ●      Use a whipstitch to sew the new part onto your stuffie.

10:15am                                    BREAK

10:30am          Activity/Lesson: Travel-size stuffies (felt, scissors, pencil, paper, stuffing, pinbacks, magnets)
                 ●      Draw an animal shape less than 6” with at least 2 appendages
                 ●      Cut out of felt and sew
                 ●      add embellishments
                 ●      Attach to pin or magnet (optional)

11:30am                                     LUNCH  

12:15pm          Continue morning activity

12:45pm          TINKER TIME

2:30pm            Daily Camper Assessment
                         Weekly Camper Survey
2:45pm            ​Snack
3:00pm            Clean Up and Prep for Showcase

3:30pm            Student Showcase

4:30pm            Camper Pick Up
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