Year 4 have enjoyed using the Design, Make, Evaluate process in DT while making Victorian style hot-pads. These squares of quilted fabric would have been used as oven gloves.
We looked at examples of hot-pads before deciding on our own designs. We knew that we could evaluate as we went along and changed the design to make it simpler or more detailed, depending on how we found the sewing.
We then hemmed our fabric squares (made from our second-hand pillowcases), turn them inside out and added a square of fleece. After sewing up the gap, we added on our quilting designs.
