Thursday - Embroidery class

 

 

Embroidery class on Thursday evening.

This lady is Althea, she is well known to the team. She is from Unitedville and she cares for the children of two of her siblings who passed away from diabetes and heart issues.

Althea has also found the time to start a group for the girls who have dropped out of school.

This group now has about 11 girls and they meet once a week. Althea and her friends fix

a meal and have Bible study and group discussions on how the girls can get back on track.

This group is self funded by Althea and her friends.

Through the next year Althea will teach embroidery using some of the supplies that we were able to

provide because of the generosity of our church family.

 Embroidery on Thursday night was a small class. We had a storm blow through

so attendance was down. But we did have some little ones who were interested in

learning.

 This little one is name LaSandra she attended class with her grandmother Ms Juana.

She is 3 years old and had very good coordination and motor skills. She was

interested in making some beads for her hair.

 This is grandma Juana working on her own project.

Erra is working on her project with some difficulty. Threading needles isn't as easy as it looks especially with three strands of thread.



Good Morning!

A busy day in LosTambos yesterday! We were in the process of finishing our uniform shirts.

We have all 18 finished except for the buttons and button holes. That requires practice...lots of practice.

All did a pretty good job. The biggest stumbling block for them was to get the sleeves put on.

Needless to say anyone who has sewn understands. As for me I became proficient at putting

in sleeves.

We had another beautiful day about 86 degrees and last evening a cold front went through. Rain came with the cold front and brought much needed water. Much to the happiness of the Howler monkeys.

They have been howling all week wanting rain. Now they might be quiet for a while.

Today's temperature will only be in the 70's, cloudy but looks like it will clear.

 

 

 

 

This is Rosanna and her daughter Daisy. Rosanna has come to our classes in the

past. She sews all her daughter's clothes by hand.  She is a very talented lady. Now she is learning to use the machines.

Hopefully some of the young daughters in the pictures will be able to learn from their mothers.

 

Dorothy this one is for you! Here are all the little roosters at work.

They all say thank you so much for bringing the materials and helping them.

The roosters were also made by hand, no electric power for the machines. What is so nice

is that didn't stop Dorothy and didn't stop the ladies from making what they wanted.

 

Last evening we had a great group for embroidery! We even had some children that worked with us.

That class and ice cream completed our day.

Laundry is on the line and machines are packed............off to Buena Vista for the sewing class. Then on to embroidery class tonight at 5:30.

 

 



Monday...............Wednesday............ SEWING

Hi to everyone!

We started sewing classes Monday morning! What a great group of women.

We had a total of 18 women attending, 10 in the morning and 8 in the afternoon. Lots

of young mothers. We had many return from last year and a few new ones. Norma and

her mother Elita came to classes for the first time. Also their first time using a machine.

Dividing into two classes a day helped with the use of sewing machines and personal  attention.

We started Monday's class with cutting out patterns for the uniform shirts. That went well

and we began to put the pieces together on Tuesday. Today we worked on the hardest part!!

SLEEVES..........................NOT FUN AT ALL!!!!! We seemed to get through that part and have

moved on to collars and facing. TOMORROW......................buttons and button holes. I think I

might be absent????  I think they will have to have scrap fabric and PRACTICE!!!

 

 

Monday evening at the mission house.

Monday evening we had to clean out the totes from a day of sewing. I was happy to

have two really good helpers. D'Andra and Era and of course Ms. Juanita. Mark has

been around to help Joe out too.

 

 

Thursday we are will wrap up the sewing in Los Tambos and spend the evening

with the Unitedville embroidery group. They are coming by the mission house at 5:30 for ice cream

and embroidery.

 

Friday we will be going to Buena Vista to work with a new group of women. Excited

to see how all of this works out. We will let you know on Friday night. We are taking

some machines, a sewing project and an interpreter.

 

Joe has been busy working on the quilt racks and numerous other projects

 to keep him out of trouble.

 



Back to work.......................

We're back to work tomorrow................starting with pattern cutting from 9:00am to 12:00pm. The class from 1:00pm to 3:30pm we will teach how to sew everything together.  We are working on the uniform shirts. We have a tailor from San Ignacio coming to help when we begin sewing for the boy's pants.

I will be meeting with the ladies of Buena Vista tomorrow at 2:00. We are hoping to find out their skill level. We will also begin plans for next year, we need electrical power to the building first.

We are also looking for women in Spanish Look Out that might be interested in teaching sewing classes throughout the year in Los Tambos.

Tomorrow Joe will be getting materials for a quilting rack and working on some issues with the bathrooms.

Busy once again!

Tomorrow we are at the one week mark...........

Greetings from Belize ...................Tuesday! WOW how time flies!!!!
Today we had a class in Unitedville in the morning and went to Buena Vista in the afternoon to visit Mefi Martinez. We toured a new building at the school that will become home for another
Threads of Hope sewing group. It was a building provided by a grant from Japan. . Right now they are waiting for electrical hook ups and things will be ready to go. Mefi Martinez is helping coordinate this effort. We will meet with some of the ladies on Monday and see who we have interested. We are
estimating 20 ladies. New and exciting things happening.

Dottie's comments and pictures from Belize.................

 



The Ladies at LosTombos enjoying the sewing class held on Monday! Linda and Dottie really liked watching the ladies take it all in! We had 13 women and 7 children, all thankful for our help and coming to visit with them!





This is Mrs. T gathering all the children who want a ride home from school! I think she had
17 kids when she left the school! She had a "BUS" load!!

This is Linda passing out blankets and dresses to the IN HIS WILL Pre-school in Unitedville on Tuesday! The children were really excited to receive gifts from friends back in the states! 
This morning we had an embroidery class attended by 9 ladies. They began working on projects and
were off to a beautiful start!!

Hi there!! Greetings from Belize..................this is Dottie. I just wanted to share a few pictures and comments.

 

Another picture of the sewing group at LosTombos, they were

so interested in their projects that they wouldn't smile for the camera!!!

A good time was had by all!!