CHALLENGES ON OUR JOURNEY -

SO with a design this big we faced a lot of challenges along the way

Firstly all the stuff we needed to learn:

1. Sheep farming
2. The wool industry
3. The technological advances of the wool industry
4. The effect of climate change on sheep farming 
5. The effect of our carbon footprint
6. Biosecurity a shared responsibility
7. Sustainable living
8. Career option

Plus extra stuff to help us with our design:

1. Artists using wool
2. Merino wool in fashion
3. Merino in space
4. The history of knitting in Australia

Then the art stuff:

1. Designing
2. Sanding
3. Undercoating
4. Sketching up
5. Painting
6. Masking up
7. Spray painting
8. Sponging
9. etc……...

Then the wool  stuff:

We had to learn how to:

1. Knitting
2. French knit
3. Crochet
4. Make pom poms
5. Stitching
6. Finger knit
7. Knit bomb
8. Latch hook

LEARNING TO KNIT

LATCHING THE GRASS TOOK FOREVER!!!!!!

A MASSIVE CHALLENGE = the cutting…..

thank Ms Robinson's Dad!!

MAKING THE HEASD INTO A FRENCH KNITTING DOLL

FIGURING OUT THE SEAT MEASUREMENTS

THE LAMP DESIGN…….

The Pom Poms were taken off the final design because they looked pretty bad!

We took a lot of time to get the galaxy background right!