{"id":5015,"date":"2009-03-18T08:17:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T08:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opsisters.org.nz\/preview\/2009\/03\/18\/our-new-home-economics-class\/"},"modified":"2023-05-09T22:12:01","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T22:12:01","slug":"our-new-home-economics-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opsisters.org.nz\/preview\/2009\/03\/18\/our-new-home-economics-class\/","title":{"rendered":"OUR NEW HOME ECONOMICS CLASS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IbPOz5dvLAI\/Sc8q8zuQNcI\/AAAAAAAAAsY\/Uj8TbOjbdZ0\/s1600-h\/sewing2.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 284px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IbPOz5dvLAI\/Sc8q8zuQNcI\/AAAAAAAAAsY\/Uj8TbOjbdZ0\/s400\/sewing2.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5318516909112571330\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With the mothers of tomorrow in our hands we are keen to equip them with a little of the homely arts, which have see a sad decline from yesteryear. To begin, the essential tools had to be mustered and the endless line of old dilapidated hand cranked sewing machines were crossed off the list and assigned to their long awaited graves! Well once again it wasn\u2019t really that bad but new machines were needed so the ever resourceful Mrs Ryan whipped up the parish into a thoroughly enjoyed progressive dinner and as the say in France \u2018Voila\u2019 : we ticked of the tall order (for a bunch of nuns)of 4 machines and an over locker thanks to the proceeds.<\/p>\n<p>So far our little seamstresses have learnt the basics of cross- stitch and so decorated the front of their pincushions. Next we are still venturing the paths of a matching set of aprons when we discovered the inability of a few to sew STRAIGHT lines and so with the age old maxim of \u2018practice makes perfect\u2019 we set to the practising side of it! However, with lots of fun and many a call of \u201cSISTERRRRRRRRR\u201d we are getting on well!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the mothers of tomorrow in our hands we are keen to equip them with a little of the homely arts, which have see a sad decline from yesteryear. To begin, the essential tools had to be mustered and the endless line of old dilapidated hand cranked sewing machines were crossed off the list and &#8230; <a title=\"OUR NEW HOME ECONOMICS CLASS\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/opsisters.org.nz\/preview\/2009\/03\/18\/our-new-home-economics-class\/\" aria-label=\"More on OUR NEW HOME ECONOMICS CLASS\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apostolate","infinite-scroll-item","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opsisters.org.nz\/preview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opsisters.org.nz\/preview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opsisters.org.nz\/preview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opsisters.org.nz\/preview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opsisters.org.nz\/preview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opsisters.org.nz\/preview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5145,"href":"https:\/\/opsisters.org.nz\/preview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5015\/revisions\/5145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opsisters.org.nz\/preview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opsisters.org.nz\/preview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opsisters.org.nz\/preview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}