One of my teacher friends posted this adorable chart-paper poster from the First Grader At Last! blog on Pinterest. I wanted to make one for a teacher in my family, but instead of recopying it on paper I decided to embroider the whole thing! Crazy, I know! 🙂 But here are the steps:
- Find some fabric that looks like notebook paper, cut out a rectangle, and embroider the red line and “holes.”
- Print the sayings lightly in pencil on the lines.
- Embroider, using a different color of floss for each line.
- Cut out a piece of quilt batting and back fabric, stack and pin (with right sides together), and stitch the sides and bottom.
- Trim the seams, turn, press, and top stitch the edges.
- Sew a strip of 2-inch seam facing to the top (right sides together), fold it back to make a dowel rod casing for hanging, and handstitch it down.
Here’s my colorful version, taped (a bit wonkily!) to a wall for a photo shoot before heading to a new kindergarten classroom. Happy school year! ♥
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wow wow wow!! 🙂
Thank you, thank you, thank you! 🙂
That is brilliant! It almost makes me want to teach littlies!
Littlie teachers DO get to have lots of fun things in their classrooms! 🙂
There is no way that I’d ever embroider a periodic table for my lab wall – it would need to be huge to be useful!
Yikes! Me, neither! 🙂
Oh my! That is beautifully amazing! Your Kindergarten students are going to adore this. Now I see what you did with that fabric. You were a busy lady. I am impressed. Have a great school year. Mine starts next week. Enjoy! Jamie 🙂
Thank you for the sweet compliment! This will go to my daughter-in-law kindergarten teacher . . . I hope she loves it! 🙂 I started writing for educational publishers while I was teaching and now I do that full time. It’s such a fun job! I get to write books and curriculum materials for kids and their teachers . . . and work from home. 🙂 But . . . I always get a pang in the fall . . . missing setting up a classroom and meeting all the new children. I miss seeing my teacher friends daily, too. But I know you’ll have a WONDERFUL school year, Jamie! 🙂 Best, Katherine
i love note paper, im not even sure why 🙂 you work is always inspiring, its so bright and colourful im sure all the kiddies will love it too!
I think a clean sheet of note paper is just so full of possibilities! 🙂 Thank you so much for the lovely compliment. I had fun making it . . . even though it took a few months of spare moments! 🙂
Wow! It’s beautiful
Thank you, Maryanne! It was definitely fun picking out the colors! 🙂
how fun!
Thank you, Jennie! I can now impress people with lots of ways to say good-bye! 🙂
That must’ve been a crazy, fabulous, wonderful surprise for your friend. You’re amazing! Bye Bye Butterfly, in an hour Sunflower.
Crazy is right! 🙂 I only worked on it while traveling in the car or watching TV so it did take awhile! But it’s definitely one-of-a-kind! 🙂 Thank you!!! 🙂
Just love it!…It is fun in the “younger ones” classrooms…but, sometimes a little more hectic…Seems as though “You” enjoy what you do…Great! ~mkg
I just now read your favorite quote, “Do not make simple things complicated” . . . and I think I definitely broke that rule with this project! 🙂 But it was fun and should last forever. 🙂 Are you heading back to school soon?
You’ve outdone yourself! Great job!
Thank you! It has been on the back burner since late last year . . . a few stitches here and there as time allowed . . . so it’s nice to have it finished! 🙂
As you’ve seen, I nominated you for the Reader Appreciation Award. Thought I would tell you how fabulous you are.
Thank you, Iris! You’re such a sweetie and encourager! Not to mention SUPER creative! I appreciate you! 🙂
Stunning!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh, thank you! It’s my longest project ever . . . I drug it around with me in a ziplock bag for several months and did a few stitches whenever I had time! But it’s such a cheerful project that I didn’t mind a bit! 🙂
how cute!
Thank you! 🙂
Fabulous! Thanks for sharing 🙂 Avis x
Thank you, Avis! 🙂
This is awesome!! Love not only the detailed work but all of the fun sayings! And with that,
Gotta Go, Buffalo! 🙂
Thank you! Aren’t those sayings so cute and funny? They should help everyone leave the classroom with a smile! 🙂
Oh, this is so cute. My five years old daughter loves it. She is copying it into her little lovely note book. We love you^~^.
WOW!!! That MAKES my DAY!!! Thank you! And give your little sweetie a hug for me, okay? 🙂 P.S. If you email your address to k_scraper@hotmail.com I’ll send her one of the books I wrote for my kindergarten series, too! 🙂
adorable! 🙂
Thank you, Danielle! I hope your favorite kindergarten teacher likes it! 🙂 xo
that is the cutest!
Thank you, Molly! 🙂
You’ve outdone a wonderful idea pillows!! You know what the sincerest for of flattery is… So I hope you don’t mind me stealing this wonderful idea myself.
You go right ahead . . . everything on my blog is up for sharing! 🙂 And I can’t WAIT to see what you make! 🙂
What a fabulous idea and all those colors makes it truly stunning. The teacher in your family will be thrilled! 🙂
It arrived and is now hanging in a brand-new classroom, and Jen loves it! Yay! 🙂
I’m sure it has become one of her most treasured possessions! 🙂
It is even more amazing looking in person and the kids just love to say the poem at the end of each day. Thanks again! : )
You’re SO welcome, Jen! I really had fun working on it, and I’m glad it’s in a happy home! 🙂 Love you! xoxoxo
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