MONDAY 15TH MARCH
The second workshop day. The wee bairns came in the morning, and the bigger ones in the afternoon. In the development of the Fair Isle knit theme, I had been to visit several outlets of modern knitwear. Most of the garments are fairly classic, albeit with different names – for example, gansey is jumper – but I have been informed by various sources that the in-thing are Fair Isle hoodies. Very nice they are reputedly too. In my wanderings, I had been eyeing up the berets. Given that I have decided to design circular “plinths” for want of a better word for the playground, and I plan to base the designs of the mosaics on Fair Isle patterns, the berets are perfect! So today I set all the children the task of designing their own beret-inspired circular designs. They produced with some beautiful work. The younger class also tried their hand at clay, having not done clay with me before (at my interview I had to run a workshop and I did a clay session with the older class). I worked them hard! But they had a lot of fun.
