I took this picture during my class at the Sorbonne on Wednesday afternoon. The girl next to me is actually knitting during class, sitting quite visibly in the second row--with very few people sitting in the first. Which leads me to today's question:Can I bring some colorful tissue paper, Elmer's glue, and water to class and découpage one of the tables?
Because heaven knows that plain wood could use a little sprucing up.
Whenever I led a faculty meeting (in my old life) there was invariably someone knitting. I always referred to said person, in my own mind, as "Madame Defarge."
ReplyDeleteYou, from now on, will be "Madame Decoupage."
I believe that would be fitting, and I thank you. Yeah, meetings I've seen, and I kind of get, but in a setting where you're supposed to be taking notes, and where you're being graded?
ReplyDeletePretty bold. At least she wasn't reading the paper, like some of the kids in the back row when I lectured at Michigan. (Then again, they were in the BACK row.)
ReplyDeleteI went to school at the fairly crunchy University of Vermont and while knitting in class was not unknown there, I always wondered how you could take notes and knit. Then again, given the caliber of the students normally knitting, perhaps that wasn't one of their primary concerns. If they can knit, I can't imagine why you should be prevented from découpage. I think I might take up papier mâché in my classes next semester!
ReplyDeleteI recorded all my lectures & knitted. then I'd 'study' by transcribing te lecture later. It worked out for me. but we did have class rules that you had to use bamboo needles, since the metal ones clicked too much & made a racket when you dropped them on the floor.
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