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3-in-1 Color Tool
Students use a new tool to help them be more creative in designing their quilts. After watching a demonstration, they design their own color combinations and select the fabric for their quilt. They reiew the color wheel and warm and...
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Class Experience: African Masks
Students discover the many diverse artwork produced in Africa while focusing upon masks created in tribal groups. They conduct research using a variety of resources and then use the information as samples for inspiration to create their...
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A SLICE OF CHRISTMAS FROM PIECE O' CAKE DESIGNS
Students create Christmas quilts with the basics of hand appliqué while working on one 1950s Santa block and examine how to make that cute pieced "quilt," how to draw Santa's cheerful face, and how to manage the smaller appliqué pieces.
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Geo Jammin' By DeSign - Day 6, Lesson 32: Appliqué-tion of Learning
Second graders hand stitch three different appliqué stitches using triangles as a motif.
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Quilts with a Spin
Students create a quilt with a circular motion in the design. After watching a demonstration, they discuss the techniques used. They use different types of fabrics while practicing the proper needle turn. They share their quilts with...
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WINNING STITCHES
Students use Elsie's tips and techniques for hand quilting in one day-long session or two shorter sessions. You'll mark intricate quilting designs, discover a tried-and-true basting method.
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Exploring Machine Trapunto
This machine quilting class will teach you how to add beautiful trapunto effects without having to make tiny slits in the back of your quilt. (Shops and teachers may use this description in their announcements, flyers, etc.)
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Portraits from Nature
Students discuss and identify the elements of a quilted portrait. As a class, they demonstrate making the templates needed for the activity. They take notes on how to complete the activity and discuss finishing options for the quilt....
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The Fabric of Our Lives:
Young scholars discuss quilts within their family to reflect on their experiences. Students examine quilt sqares and sewing techniques. Young scholars create the quilt square in the classroom and a Hyperstudio card in the computer lab.
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SKYDYES
Students use fabric they have created in their quilts. Unlike dyeing and marbling, hand-painting fabric with Setacolor textile paints is not messy, not toxic, and the serendipitous results make every student feel like an artist!
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Color and Composition for the Creative Quilter
Students explore free-motion machine quilting through three exercises. They enhance patterns, make their own patterns and stitch a realistic quilted drawing. Students create a color wheel and develop a variety of methods that enable them...
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Enchanted Views
Students will create a garden with specific fabrics to a set grid (p 73) to fit the pull-out pattern of the gate. This pattern will be transferred onto the foreground which in turn will be basted onto the garden. A hand needle-turn...
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Four Seasons in Flannel
Students create a Lakeside quilt using clear, vibrant colors. Embroidered and buttonhole-stitched blocks are brought to life. Appropriate for beginner to plus skill level students. Lesson is set up for three 3-hour sessions.
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A Gathered Garden
Students are introduced to how to create a garden made out of fabric. Using different types of fabrics, they make various types of flowers to be used on their quilts and practice using different methods to attach them. They share their...
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Instructors Lesson Plan for Impressionist Palette
Students examine the goal of the Impressionist Landscape quilter to interpret nature with fabric rather than paint. Students discover how to blend hundreds of small squares in a luminous "fabric painting." There is no appliqué, no fabric...
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Tactile quilts that tell a story
Learners with multiple disabilities need to engage in projects that push them to know their full potential. They need to be able to express themselves in a variety of ways, and this very thoughtful lesson does just that. They make a...
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Counting Quilts
Learners view the Bird of Paradise quilt and observe the design-work in the quilt. In this counting quilt lesson, students will count to find repeated pictures in the quilt. Learners will represent their families in a quilt square.
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Keeping Us in Stitches Activity: Whole Cloth Quilt Design
Students examine how decorative motifs are adapted to other types of objects by craftsmen and artists. They examine photos on the Illinois State Museum website, discuss design elements, adapt a motif to a line drawing, and transfer a...
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Geo Jammin' By DeSign - Day 5, Lesson 28: The Mo-tea-if
Second graders explore tea dyeing cloth.
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Raise Your Flag
Students research the symbolism of flags and then apply what they have learned to create a flag that is a personal statement.