Sode Workshop with GOKF
October 11th, 2009GOKF - Great Ouse Kite Flyers, my local kite group.
For the past few years arrangements have been made by the club to run workshops to make a kite in a day or over a weekend. Basically we all trek out to a school in Peterborough, sewing machine in hand, and spend the day sitting at kiddie height tables, on kiddie height chairs (personally I don’t have a problem with that !) to sew our masterpieces which invariably end up getting finished at home.
This year, the projects were ambitious - to make both a Sode (a traditional japanese design using real silk) and a tulip spinner over one weekend, and amazingly this time we managed to finish both in class time. The workshop was run by a guy from Tasmania, who also kept us entertained during the meal after the Saturday session.
The best thing about these workshops is that its a chance for all of us to get together and work together, helping each other if we can/are needed and w always have a great time chatting as we work - a real social event. It seems at one point that we were slightly too distracting for poor Bruno, who resorted to ear defenders so that he could concentrate!
