Art+Craft:Young Hands Quilting Community

As part of this project a video documenting the process was created.   Each stage of this process was documented on this blog as well. Scroll through the posts to learn more about each step. Contact the artist through her website at www.jenniejohnston.com

This project has been successful due to the hands of many people and the coming together of many voices and perspectives into a cohesive whole. Below are the artworks created during this project from October 2017 to May 2018.

Our two sessions of selling raffle tickets at Cameron Community Centre allowed us to share this project with our community at large. We received many compliments about the quilt and passersby relayed stories about quilting, school fundraising and crafting to us. Our Quilt Assembly on May 24 gathered all the students together to see the results of their hard work and pull the winning ticket.  In the end, from the over 700 tickets sold a Forest Grove Elementary family won Blue Waves. The Art Quilts were displayed and will be placed in their permanent home in the coming months, outside the school library.

For our final Primary student sessions we read the delightful quilt story The Keeping Quilt by Patricia Polacco . The lineage and thrift of quilts is wonderfully demonstrated in this story. I also encouraged the students to relate the story of the Keeping Quilt to the story of our quilt Blue Waves. After our story and discussion each student created a collage quilt by gluing fabric squares, triangles and rectangles to paper. There were some beautiful designs created, and collage is a great way to introduce younger students to working with fabric layouts and design without the worry of scissors, needles and sewing.