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A good customer of ours is secretary of a local embroiderers' guild and I agreed, some time ago, to give her group a 45 min talk/demo on needlework framing next Tuesday.
As I sell needlework I get more than my fair share of it to frame; we have our own needlework club that meets once a month and now and again I'll give lacing (etc) demos, this is what gave the customer, a lovely and very very clever lady, the idea of me giving her guild a talk.
I don't have OHP transparancies or a projector as this is not something I 'do' just a prepared flip chart.
I'll talk about the importance of conservation and show/talk about what the lack of it can do, then demonstrate lacing and other stretching/prepartion methods. She wants me to bring 'stuff' her members may like to purchase - so - 60% of my shop then!
I'm sure she just wants me to make it worth my 'while', (She is paying me but does not know I'll domate that fee to the local childrens' hospice) so all I'll take is some matboard offcuts and a boxful of odd-sized frames from our 'otherwise would be thrown out' £1 box.
I'll also demonstrate fabric-wrapping; I'm no expert at that, but after Baer's class have been 'playing' and have had some really wonderful 'happy accidents' with organza (they have been 'organzamic' - thanks Baer!!)
Should I do that? could I be shooting myself in the foot? Maybe I should just show finished samples?
I'm happy that I can deliver an interesting and informative 45 mins, and am no stranger to teaching either - but my last 'lesson' was about 14 years ago and was on RCIEDs (Radio Controlled Improvised Electronic Devices - Yeah BOMBS!) ...
... not how to make them - defences against!!
(I had the best defence ever - leave the Army!)
So - I've got it all sussed out in my head and here I am, at the last minute asking "So what, or what else, would YOU do?"
I'm sure I could have asked that in fewer words, but you know me - don't have the time!!
As I sell needlework I get more than my fair share of it to frame; we have our own needlework club that meets once a month and now and again I'll give lacing (etc) demos, this is what gave the customer, a lovely and very very clever lady, the idea of me giving her guild a talk.
I don't have OHP transparancies or a projector as this is not something I 'do' just a prepared flip chart.
I'll talk about the importance of conservation and show/talk about what the lack of it can do, then demonstrate lacing and other stretching/prepartion methods. She wants me to bring 'stuff' her members may like to purchase - so - 60% of my shop then!
I'm sure she just wants me to make it worth my 'while', (She is paying me but does not know I'll domate that fee to the local childrens' hospice) so all I'll take is some matboard offcuts and a boxful of odd-sized frames from our 'otherwise would be thrown out' £1 box.
I'll also demonstrate fabric-wrapping; I'm no expert at that, but after Baer's class have been 'playing' and have had some really wonderful 'happy accidents' with organza (they have been 'organzamic' - thanks Baer!!)
Should I do that? could I be shooting myself in the foot? Maybe I should just show finished samples?
I'm happy that I can deliver an interesting and informative 45 mins, and am no stranger to teaching either - but my last 'lesson' was about 14 years ago and was on RCIEDs (Radio Controlled Improvised Electronic Devices - Yeah BOMBS!) ...
... not how to make them - defences against!!
(I had the best defence ever - leave the Army!)
So - I've got it all sussed out in my head and here I am, at the last minute asking "So what, or what else, would YOU do?"
I'm sure I could have asked that in fewer words, but you know me - don't have the time!!