Author: Jeanne Badgett
Major Program: Master Clothing Volunteer
With the abundance of easily acquired, ready-made clothing, some may assume there is little need for sewing and clothing construction skills. Although it’s often less expensive to buy clothing than it is to make it, there is still a sense of pride and accomplishment that comes from sewing your own clothing. Sewing also encourages creativity, attention to detail, hand-eye coordination, problem solving and math skills, resilience, and patience.Our Extension Programs include sewing and needle
Author: Debra Hixon
Beginner adult sewing classSecond Saturday Sewing Studio The problem As a result of COVID 19 and the isolation of our citizens, the Calloway County Cooperative Extension Service, the Family and Consumer Science agent, and the Master Clothing Volunteers, in the summer of 2023, planned to offer the citizens of Calloway County an adult beginner sewing class as a way to engage the community in an educational, creative project and to reconnect socially. It had been several years sin
Author: Kelsey Sebastian
The Kentucky Master Clothing Volunteer Program is an outgrowth of volunteer interest and concern for a longtime Extension program (sewing). Quicksand Area in our East Kentucky Region currently has nine active Master Clothing Volunteers.The program was founded on and continues to function around four major program goals:To reach, teach and involve community clientele to affect behavior change and improve family living.To provide in-depth ongoing educational opportunities for volunteers enro
Author: Laken Campbell
The problemThe Kentucky Master Clothing Volunteer Program is an outgrowth of volunteer interest and concern for a longtime Extension program (sewing). Quicksand Area in our East Kentucky Region currently has nine active Master Clothing Volunteers.The program was founded on and continues to function around four major program goals:To reach, teach and involve community clientele to affect behavior change and improve family living.To provide in-depth ongoing educational opportunities for volu
Author: Lora Pullin
In our technologically advanced society, basic life skills such as sewing has become somewhat of a lost art. Sewing helps you develop fine motor skills, improves your focus and concentration and teaches the importance of patience and self-control. Knowing personal boundaries, increasing skill, achieving tangible goals while working outside your comfort zone all support the development of confidence and self-esteem. The Greenup County Family & Consumer Sciences program, throu
Author: Chelsea Workman
The Master Clothing Volunteer program in Kentucky aims to achieve several important goals. These include teaching and involving community members, providing ongoing educational opportunities for volunteers, training volunteers to assist with educational programs, and expanding outreach to clientele. Participants in the program work closely with the county Family and Consumer Science Agent to develop and execute educational programs. Pike County Master Clothing Volunteers exemplified their
Author: Sherri Farley
A Basic Sewing Class for ages 18 and up was planned by the 4-H Youth Development agent along with the leadership of one of the Master Clothing Volunteers in the area. Information was sent out via social media and nine participants signed up. All 5 of the MCVs used the class as part of their required volunteer teaching hours for the state program.Four other new Master Clothing Volunteers assisted with the class held on a Saturday in May from 9am-4pm. The volunteers also offered a time
Author: Ronda Rex
To assist the University of Kentucky Master Clothing Volunteers (MCV) with their leadership and sewing skills, two counties in Northern Kentucky collaborated to offer a basic sewing series to one of their more rural counties. MCV’s are required to obtain a minimum of 100 volunteer commitment hours every 2 years which includes 50 teaching hours, 30 continuing education hours, and 20 leadership and service hours. The N. KY MCV Class of 2022 along with county and area conta
Author: Elizabeth Evans
To assist the University of Kentucky Master Clothing Volunteers (MCV) with their leadership and sewing skills, two counties in Northern Kentucky collaborated to offer a basic sewing series to one of their more rural counties. MCVs are required to obtain a minimum of 100 volunteer commitment hours every 2 years which includes 50 teaching hours, 30 continuing education hours, and 20 leadership and service hours. The N. KY MCV Class of 2022 along with area contact FCS Agents, Liz
Author: Brenda Cockerham
The problem: Basic skills are often not taught to youth and adults due to fewer people possessing the skills to pass on to others. While Johnson County FCS has been afforded ample volunteers that are accomplished and freely give of their skills and talents, they continue to grow older and fewer in number. In the field of sewing and textiles in particular, the skills needed have become very individualized and even more creative in nature as opposed to their original utilitarian nature. Research i
Author: Vicki Boggs
Author: Sarah Drysdale
The overall goals for the Master Clothing Volunteer (MCV) Program are, to reach, teach, and involved community clientele to affect behavior change and improve family living. To provide in-depth ongoing educational opportunities for volunteers enrolled in the program. To train volunteers who can help local Cooperative Extension professionals with planning, implementing, and evaluating educational programs in clothing. Finally, to expand current educational offerings and increase outreach opportun
