Author: Ruth Chowning
Major Program: Apparel and Textiles (Non-Master Clothing Volunteer)
With the Kentucky “Healthy At Home” initiative during this pandemic, the Extension Agent of Bullitt County partnered with the Extension Agent of Garrard County to offer an online Needlework class over the 8 months of the pandemic in 2020. With the resurgence of heritage skills, Needlework can be a way to learn new skills of the mind, heart and hands. Handwork develops focus and concentration. It encourages following a process in order to complete a project. It enhance
Author: Valerie Holland
Sewing and handwork can bring great satisfaction to someone who makes a project. When very little cost is associated with a project and personal creativity a part of the process, the level of personal satisfaction and fulfillment is found to be greater. Pin Weaving is a low cost, personally creative method of using the heritage skill of weaving. The "It's So Fine for Home and Family" Sewing Expo committee brought Shirley Adams to Kentucky to be the featured speaker
Author: Rita Stewart
The Ft. Harrod Area Seminar, "It's Not Your Mothers Sewing Room" was originally planned for a limited audience in-person for March 2020, the seminar format was changed and held as a virtual program with unlimited audience in November 2020. 183 participants viewed the live Zoom program (2.5 hours) which was recorded and made available afterwards (197 views since Nov 2020). A qualtrics evaluation with 70% return was conducted immediately after the program. This seminar was planned af
Author: Mary Hixson
In a collaborative effort with the Lincoln County FCS Extension Agent, in September 2020 we offered our first virtual quilting class in conjunction with the National 'Sew a Jelly Roll Day' event. The sewing community is an easy way to make friends and seek advice from people that enjoy the same hobby as you, which can also fight depression.Sewing is a single focus task, which reduces the likelihood of negative thoughts and can help fight anxiety.By September 2020 after months of shut dow
It's Sew Fine: Sewing Expo had been held annually for several years in the northern Kentucky area. Not from the lack of participation or interest, this event could no longer be held as in previous years. FCS Agents and participants of the event had inquired whether the Ft. Harrod Area FCS Extension Agents would continue this event in a different location. With the renovation and additions to the Boyle County Extension Office, this was possible. An area committee was formed consisting of the
Author: Alethea Price
Author: M. Elizabeth Coots
It's Sew Fine: Sewing Expo had been held annually for several years in the Northern Kentucky area. Not from the lack of participation or interest, this event could no longer be held as in previous years. FCS Agents and participants of the event had inquired whether the Fort Harrod Area FCS Extension Agents would continue this event in a different location. With the renovation and additions to the Boyle County Extension Office, this was possible. An area committee was formed consisting of the
Sewing and handwork can bring great satisfaction to someone who makes a project. When very little cost is associated with a project and personal creativity a part of the process, the level of personal satisfaction and fulfillment is found to be greater. Pin Weaving is a low cost, personally creative method of using the heritage skill of weaving. The "It's So Fine for Home and Family" Sewing Expo committee brought Shirley Adams to Kentucky to be the featured speaker on Cl
The Fort Harrod Area Seminar, "It's Not Your Mothers Sewing Room" was originally planned for a limited audience in-person for March 2020, the seminar format was changed and held as a virtual program with unlimited audience in November 2020. 183 participants viewed the live Zoom program (2.5 hours) which was recorded and made available afterward (197 views since Nov 2020). A Qualtrics evaluation was conducted immediately after the program, with a 70% return rate. This seminar was pl
Author: Karli Giles
The Ft. Harrod Area Seminar, "It's Not Your Mothers Sewing Room" was originally planned for a limited audience in-person for March 2020, the seminar format was changed and held as a virtual program with an unlimited audience in November 2020. 183 participants viewed the live Zoom program (2.5 hours) which was recorded and made available afterwards (197 views since Nov 2020). A Qualtrics evaluation with 70% return was conducted immediately after the program. This seminar was planned
Author: Kate Thompson
Clothing serves many purposes. Societies generally dictate that we wear clothing for modesty or to be in line with cultural norms. And if we go beyond the aspects of how clothing protects us from the elements, enhances our comfort, or indicates our affiliation with select groups or ideals, clothing also impacts our self-image and how we interact with others (Aydino?lu & Krishna, 2011; Kinley, 2010). Clothing is more than just, “wear a dress because you are going to a fancy dinner,&rdqu
Author: Diana Doggett
2020 created both chaos and opportunity for many citizens. During a pandemic, many skilled homemakers were tasked with implementing home management practices for personal, family and community needs. In the middle of a face covering shortage, there became a huge demand for handmade masks. A Fayette County Quilt Guild member and her mother-in-law combined their pre-purchased fabric and sewed face masks daily. After donating hundreds of masks, they began selling their excess to c
Author: Angie York
It is often said that sewing and quilting have become a thing of the past, but that theory has been proven wrong in recent months. Never has sewing been as useful as it has been throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. Sewists, experienced and new, honed their skills by making face coverings that were used in hospitals and beyond to help stop the spread of the novel Corona virus. As interests in sewing renewed, a surge in the purchase of sewing machines, fabric, sewing notions, and e
Author: Brenda Cockerham
Quilting has routinely taken place here in Johnson County for the past 50 years. A group called the Johnson County Piecemakers have served in leadership roles teaching others for just as long. They have hosted quilt shows and activities consistently each year. After covid, sewing and quilting has a rejuvenated interest. At first 11 people who sew that are in or affiliated with the Johnson county Homemakers worked together to make over 500 facemasks. The FCS agent, recognized the need for positiv
Author: Hazel Jackson
Due to closures during the pandemic, the Jabez Quilt Seminar was cancelled in January 2020 and 2021. The advisory council of 6 volunteers and 3 agents planned a day of tips and techniques by zoom on one of the days that the conference would have been held. 8 separate workshop sessions were taught by teachers and agents. 62 people attended the online sessions. The Rockcastle County FCS agent taught a session on the Jabez Quilt Seminar quilt design
Author: Jessica Hunley
The COVID pandemic has presented several new obstacles for our local schools systems, one of which being able to keep our kids safe by providing enough facemasks for any children who are in need, for one reason or another. Several Madison County Family Resource Centers in our local schools identified as having a need for child sized facemasks for their students around the county elementary schools, as well as a couple middle and high schools. In partnership with the Family Resource C
