8P2 - Your Choice

Using a fabric, a sewing, and embroidery machine, I created two hay bags for my rabbits. I created these hay bags because I wanted to learn how to use a sewing and embroidery machine. I also made these hay bags because I needed new ones for my rabbits and I wanted the hay bags to be customized with their name.

During this process, I learned how to thread a sewing machine and embroidery machine along with how to work each machine. When I was learning this it was very much trial and error. Sometimes I was able to get it on my first try other times I had to redo it three or four different times.

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 to empowered leaner. It ties to empowered learner because I had an active role in choosing what I wanted to make and I was able to demonstrate my idea by bringing it to life and creating it myself.

A challenge I overcame on this project was threading the bobben on the sewing machine. I was able to do it by starting over and watching videos. I had to to take out the thread and make sure it was positioned correctly so it was caught by the needle.

Given a chance to do this again, I would change the holes in the bag. The reason why I would change it is because the cuts were not straight. I wish I would've cut the holes before I started sewing it so I could make it cleaner.

Hastings High School Career and Technical Education Program offers Agriculture, Business Management, Computer Programming, Construction Trades, Culinary Arts, Digital Multimedia, Engineering Design, Finance, Insurance, Marketing.  My project connects to the Engineering Design CTE program at Hastings High School. It ties to this because in engineering you have to create solutions for problems that you have and that's what I did when I made my Hay bags. I solved the issue of my rabbits wasting Hay.

My project connects to careers in costume designing for movies/tv shows or plays. It connects to this because people who create costujmes have to measure, plan out, sew, and sometimes use embroidery to make these costumes. I had to do these also but instead of it being a costume it was two Hay bags.