Art+Craft:Young Hands Quilting Community

Design week was an inspiring one where four out of the sixteen classes working on the Art Quilt worked out the final layouts of the 4 x 4 inch squares in each season. I was impressed by the thoughtfulness and lively discussions that accompanied these sessions. The students had lots of opinions and had to make their case on several occasions for why they thought a specific design choice should or should not be made. Blocks were taped to the wall in the 9 squares per row, 10 row pattern Students then re-arranged the squares to make a pleasing design This was challenging as many of the squares have similar designs.  Should they be grouped together  in a pattern or distributed randomly?  What is most pleasing to the eye? These classes also brainstormed the titles of the panels. We used process of elimination through voting to get our final result. Once the design was finalised each block was numbered from 1 through 90 on the back side with tape. T

This week was our first Primary week of the project. Since the older students are doing most of the sewing I have spent more time with them thus far. Primary week means that I can share our progress with the students in Kindergarten to Grade 3 and let them have some hands on time with the sewing machine as well. Our first step was to look at the finished Raffle quilt top and admire all of the hard word of the Intermediate students. (Grades 4-7) Each student then chose two 2.5 inch squares to sew together and the sewing began Each student took home their work for a keepsake