textiles - commercial patterns

In textiles we have been working on making a clothing item , I am making a skirt there was a verity of patterns to pick from from pants to hoodies.

We spent a couple periods making and cutting out the patterns 

we choose a fabric we liked and was the right type for the pattern I picked out a leaped print fabric similar to this one then cut out the fabric and sew them together with an overlocker. 

Novel study - TWTWB chapter 17-20

 chapter 17 questions 

1. she thinks that he might start taking more and more things that they don't need or that just aren't helpful.  
2. two of them died when the explosion happen - Ellie seen one of them when she was leaving and said they look like they were around the same age and were probably as scared as they were - she felt sick that she killed people even though they would have killed the three of them if they didn't do anything to stop them.
3. they want a clean war so that america or county's like america doesn't get involved - they also don't want anyone to think that they have concentration camps even though they might have some.
4. so that when they do colonise Australia they have clean homes to live in - they also get some of them to take anything that looks valuable maybe to sell or maybe just to have   

chapter 19 questions 

1.  because they all walked in a orderly form and had uniforms and weapons 
2.  making plans on how they can approach them properly, being careful about how the move around/travel to different places and where the soldiers might be                                

chapter 20 questions

1. because she knows she wont be a hero if something bad happens because all the things shes doing is just stuff she does every day 
2.  i guess true courage is when your really scared but still do it 
3.  the truck didn't start at first and that it would get stuck on the bottom of the bridge and explode while they were in it