Help! Need opinions!

[sakon76]

I should have been doing this days ago, but I've just realized I'm up against the wire. Every year I attend and teach classes at Costume College, and tomorrow is the submission deadline for teachers. I generally only teach two classes, but that doesn't stop me from offering more (last year I submitted three and only two were chosen for the schedule).

These are the ones I'm currently mulling over submitting:

(1) Basic Hand Embroidery - This is an easy class and I still have two kits left over from last year that I could recycle; on the other hand, I don't get many students; last year I only had one.
(2) Blackwork Embroidery - never taught this before; I have a couple samples and examples on hand, but I'd need to do up supplies, a handout, and a pattern or two. Overall, though, I think this should also be fairly easy.
(3) Steel Boning - I would have to update last year's handout (several sources of boning have gone out of business) and dredge up and test some of the new supplies that can be theoretically found at Home Depot-ish places.
(4) Period Medieval Dresses - the theme for the year is medieval dress, so I would like to offer a class that supports the theme. I would have to significantly narrow it down ("medieval" covers about a thousand years), but basically I'd like to do a class on how to a period-accurate outfit instead of the, ahem, highly Hollywood patterns put out by Simplicity et al. I'd probably focus on a simple t-tunic, economical cutting techniques, fitting it to oneself, and how to adapt the garment to the changing silhouettes as the period went on.

So! I need votes and or suggestions on which of these y'all think I should offer to teach.

Comments

[racerxmachina.livejournal.com]

4, without question. I know someone right now who could benefit from this.

[eerian_sadow]

well, i would probably beat down the doors for classes 3 and 4, so i'm thinking those would be decent options. period clothing is always a challenge, even when you have one of those highly Hollywood-ized patterns and the proper methods to use for steel boning are definitely not covered in home economics anymore (if they ever were; my mom sure doesn't know anything about how to use boning).

[mmouse15.livejournal.com]

I have basic embroidery down; a very good course in the stitches from my mother. But I would kill to be able to take any of the other three, especially #2 and #4.

What a nifty life you lead!

[sakon76.livejournal.com]

Eh, is not so much nifty as knowing how to do things and once in a while wondering if other people would be interested in learning how to do them as well.

[flybystardancer.livejournal.com]

I think #2 and #4 sound good... Though #3 would be interesting too...

[gretsky1.livejournal.com]

Medieval, definitely

[cazcatharsis.livejournal.com]

Heh. Steel Boning.

[sakon76.livejournal.com]

...I know exactly where your brain is, and that is a very deep, very wide gutter. :)

[cazcatharsis.livejournal.com]

bwahahahaa