Presentation

Today Caitlin and I finished our power point for our presentation. it was really fun to make because we only used our own pictures for all of the backgrounds. I noticed that I had a lot of fun pictures but Caitlin was always the one behind the camera. Oh well. it took a long time, but we got everything the way we want it and our presentation is about ten minutes. It will be an interesting presentation because I get nervous and Caitlin doesn't like to speak in front of large groups.

Annotated Bibliography: Part I

We started the annotated bibliography today and haven't gotten very far. We have an anchor text and a few linking texts picked out. Our anchor is the Reader's Digest Complete Guide to Needlework because it explains all the basic instructions for both knitting and crocheting. The anchors are various websites used to find patterns for our projects.

Double Pointed Giraffe

Meetings have been going along well. Caitlin and I realize that we only have a few left so we are going to propose a project for Mrs. Spycher. Since she loves giraffes, we want to make her a lot of stuffed giraffes. Caitlin has been trying to find easy knit patterns, but hasn't had much luck. She says that the only one she could find was double point and even she doesn't know how to do that let alone explain it to the beginners. I think most of the people interested so far are crocheters anyway and there are a lot of patterns for that so far.
We are planning to give them to her on the last meeting when we have our party for being a great supervisor.

Rubric...

We had to make our own rubric for our presentation today. We had fun with it, but it was hard to pick things that graded our speaking because neither of us like to give presentations and speak in front of large groups. There were also a lot of options that didn't really apply like attire and listening to presentations. It was hard to pick tings like volume and even complete sentences because I am not very good at presenting and speaking well in front of people. We decided on preparedness, props, content, speaking clearly, and posture and eye contact. We made sure to have it approved by Mr. Schoenborn so there were no overlapping groups and it was good.

The Last Row

After the meeting today, which went really well, Caitlin and I were discussing the final meeting. We are going have a party to celebrate the awesome year and success of the club. We even decided that we would continue until the last full Tuesday for the underclassmen which means that we will have to come into school on June 5. I am really sad that it is almost over, but we will have fun and hopefully the club will continue on next year.

Research Plan: Part III

Caitlin stayed home today so I was on my own, well not really. I texted her when class started and she was able to get online to help me finish the research plan. Luckily we were using google docs so we could chat about it while we worked. The research plan is finished and graded. 100%!

Research Plan: Part II

We worked on the research plan again today and got through the second section of it. We've found it extremely redundant and boring but we are getting through it none the less.

Research Plan: Part I

In class today, Caitlin and I started working on our research plan. Technically we started it yesterday when we were supposed to, but that meant that we created a document for it on Google Docs and put our names on it. 

We finished the first section and started the second but lost focus after a while. Hopefully we can work on it a little tonight and finish it tomorrow. 

First Project... still...

So after choosing our first project we completed it in two weeks. Then we chose to make blankets for another organization. I tried to email the contacts that were listed but have yet to hear back from them. I think we are going to find another place to send our projects to we just haven't yet. People have been suggesting that we just take them to the hospital, but Caitlin and I haven't really talked about it yet.

Display Board

We were asked to make a display about or club that would be displayed at school. We never really figured out what it was for exactly, but we made one anyway. It is pretty awesome because it is completely knit and crocheted. The background is made of granny squares and the words are knitted and crocheted respectively. It was so much fun to make, but it didn't really serve much of a purpose. Oh well, it was fun!

Our First Project

Caitlin and I have already done a lot of work on our senior project. We got the club approved by Mrs. Verleger and made posters to advertise it in school.
Knitting and Crocheting Club is going well, we have had three meetings so far and are collecting our first project.  Even though not many people have brought in projects for donation yet, everyone is having a lot of fun. Today was the best probably because we had a good amount of peolpe and everyone was really engaged in their projects. We had a knitting circle and a crocheting circle, and I was working with someone on their very first project.
Our first donations is supposed to be a collection of baby booties, hats, and blankets for newborns through Angels of Love Charity, but I am waiting on conformation from the organization before sending out the projects. Hopefully that will happen soon.

Piles of Yarn

Before our first meeting, we had to get donations for supplies. Caitlin got on freecycle and found someone in the area with a lot of spare yarn and needles. We spent the afternoon on Saturday sorting through all of the yarn. It was really fun and we lined it all up by color after sorting it by weight. I was really glad that we got a lot of donations because then we didn't have to worry about buying yarn and there was quite a selection. We also didn't have to by any needles, but I had to pick up a few hooks before the meeting.