Quilt Patterns
Process
Task 1 Listen to the stories The Keeping Quilt By Patricia Polacco and The Patchwork Quilt by Valerie Flournoy. How are the stories similar, how are they different. Use a Venn diagram to compare the stories.Task 2 Explore quilts.
What shapes did you see in these quilts?
Did you find any circles, squares, and rectangles?
Did any quilts have a pattern?
Did any tell a story? What kind of story did it tell?Task 3 Use squares create a pattern. Go to this website and create a pattern you would like to see on a quilt.
Task 4 Use tanegrams create a quilt square. Go to this site to create a square.
Use tanegrams to make a quilt square.Task 5 Go the this site:
Use polygons to make a quilt square.
Drag these shapes and design a quilt.Task 6 You will now make your own quilt square.
Materials:
Pencil
Fabric glue
Assorted fabric scraps
White cotton cloth 6X6 Square
1. Make your design.
2. Cut fabric to fit you design.
3. Glue.
