There is one thing that I did not cover from 4-H camp. What about the candle?
Ahhh, yes, the candle. To properly have a cult meeting, one must have candles!
Well, maybe not.
The straps were made out of webbing. If you have ever cut webbing, then handed it to a child, you will quickly notice that the webbing gets shorter by the second as they pick of pieces and start unraveling.
There is a very neat trick called “heat sealing”. It works best with nylon, but any synthetic material will do. If you run the end through a flame, it will melt the fibers together and fuse the end. Voila….no more picking.
Now, I could have instructed them to turn under the edge of the strap, blah, blah, blah. Please remember who was taking this class. Beginners. Little people who can’t figure out how to iron up a hem or sew with the presser foot down or even how to NOT sew their bag shut.
And…..if you do things like turning under the end stuff, they think sewing is hard and there goes that cult member. They run away, as fast as their little legs can carry them. But if there is fire involved. Wow. So we have needles that we get to jab into fabric, creating a felting, then we get to pass stuff through fire and watch it melt.
So cool!
Its like Mr. Wizard’s science show!
For the encore we should do a Mentos/Diet Coke experiment. If you don’t know what that is, please take a moment to google it, you are missing out on some good internet viewing.
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