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The Final Touch

The final teaching sessions with the Grade 3 to 7 students involve trying out hand quilting. This skill is one that takes many hours, weeks, months and years to master. While we had the raffle quilt quilted by a professional, the art quilts are being quilted by the students and myself.


Above is our classroom setting for quilting. I put out quilting books, examples of stitching and then pass out small quilt sandwiches (two pieces of fabric with quilting batting between them)


The students then get to practice quilting.


Students worked hard to get the rhythm.


Once they felt more confident they began working on sections of the art quilts.


We will continue working on these panels until their big reveal at the Quilt Project Assembly on May 24, 2018.




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