Art+Craft:Young Hands Quilting Community

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.

We have been busy sewing again.  Our seasonal panels tops are under construction. After the design process numbers were taped on the back of the squares, students began sewing them together. Each row had 9 squares. It is lovely to see how the squares contrast or blend as they are sewn together. From the Summer Panel. A Winter panel row completed. Here is how the rows come together after they are sewn. This is the Autumn quilt. More soon as we proceed into our second Primary student week next week.

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 sid...