Here is the banner Steph helped me sew together for the kids' school. Eleanor is making her first holy communion this month, and each member of her class painted a sacrament-related design onto a 1' square of fabric. The teacher asked me to assemble all 30 squares into a banner.
Eleanor's square is the second from the right on the top row. It's a funky-looking yellow bird representing the Holy Spirit, with multicoloured embellishments and glitter. Here it is enlarged. Eleanor always uses colour lavishly in her paintings. Years ago all her class coloured in angels at Christmas time. Most of the children used tasteful combinations of white, silver and gold to colour their angels. Eleanor coloured hers with stripes using every pen in the set; hers was a groovy rainbow hippy angel.At the end of the school year, the banner will be cut up and each child will take their artwork home. I wonder if I'll be asked to hem all 30 squares? Probably.
4 comments:
That banner looks superb. I bet the children feel really proud to see it hanging up in their classroom. Do you have any photos of it in situ, so to speak? Showing how it fits into the general surroundings?
It's hanging in the school hall. At over 6'x5' I don't think there's a big enough wall in the classroom to house it. On the other hand, in the hall all the school (and all visitors to the school) get to admire it, which wouldn't be true if it was in the classroom.
Phew, I'd forgotton we did that, as well as everything else, while I was visiting.
It' looks amazing, geater than the sum of it's parts, and all that. I'm glad you chose such a dull green for the boarder. It makes the colourful painted squares zing!
Well done to everyone who took part! what a gorgeous piece of work!Didn't they do well!
I loved your daughters hippy piece,its so great to be different you have a budding artist there!
Love from Kathyann and the girls
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