We are three year nine boys who have been enjoying making monster/alien cushions in our Y9 textiles lessons with some help from our teacher Mrs Davey.
The lessons have been really good fun and we’ve learned all sorts of new skills and techniques such as appliqué, reverse appliqué and blending fabric crayons together to make different colours.
We also made 3D objects like arms, legs and even heads to go onto our monsters.
We started off at the beginning of term by just doing some samples of appliqué and reverse appliqué.
Then we had to decide what material we wanted and before cutting it out into the shape we wanted our monster to be.
The next job was to stitch out eyes and mouth onto our monsters, then we turned it inside out so that the eyes were on the outside and finally we stuffed our monsters with wadding before hand sewing the hole up.
This was our last term in textiles because in year 10 we opt for other subjects, but we have all really enjoyed our textiles experience even if we did sometimes get a bit annoyed with the sewing machines!