Using an embroidery machine, and a sweatshirt, I created a cool design of pink flower on a sweatshirt. This design was two pink and yellow flowers on the corner of a gray sweatshirt. The flowers were a pretty pink with a hot pink outline and a yellow center, with accent dots on the corners of the embroidered area.

  During the process of embroidering the sweatshirt, I learned how to use the embroidery machine.  I learned how to thread the machine correctly and I used my embroidering skills to embroider two pretty flowers onto a sweatshirt. 

The 7 standards of the class are Empowered Learner, Digital Citizen, Knowledge constructor, Innovative Designer, Computational Thinker, Creative Communicator, and Global Collaborator. My project ties Innovative Designer because I made a unique-ish design on my sweatshirt.

  A challenge I overcame on this project was the thread on the machine kept breaking, so I had to rethread the machine a lot, which took up a lot of my time when I was trying to make my design. And another challenge with this project was at the same time I was learning how to embroider, Mya and Sydney were also trying to figure out how to use the machine to make their designs.

  Given a chance to do this project again, I would embroider something else, like a piece of fabric I could use for a quilt. Or, I would probably make a pillow for my cousins new baby. Or, I would choose a different design and make a more complex design, by that I mean one that takes longer to embroider on the machine, instead of a plain and short one, like the one I did for this project.

  Hastings High School Carrier and Technical Education Program Offers Agriculture, Business Management, Computer Programming, Construction Trades, Culinary Arts, Digital Multimedia, Engineering Design, Finance, Insurance, and Marketing. My project connects to Engineering design because I learned how to use an embroidery machine to embroider a sweatshirt.