Designing an 'Olden Days' pinny

We noticed in the photos of 'the olden days' at Dio from our visit to the achives, that the 

girls pinnies were very plain.

We talked about how the girls were taught to hand sew designs and patterns on their pinnies, and we drew a picture together using different designs that the girls thought up. 

 This exercise was a good way to discuss patterns and how they are made and for it to be a pattern, 

it needs to be repeating things.

We invited the girls to think about designing an old fashioned pinny for themselves.When it came to drawing their own patterns we were impressed with how quickly they picked up the idea of repeating patterns. They found keeping a straight line
for their patterns quite a challenge!

When we discussed the possibility of sewing a pinny, there was quite a bit of enthusiasm. As the girls have really enjoyed using the sewing cards, and getting the knack of turning the card over to sew the next ‘stitch’. We thought that doing some simple hand sewing would prove interesting!