Looking at Quilts

In colonial times, the women sewed all the clothes for the family.  Cloth was hard to get, so no piece of fabric was ever wasted.   Scraps were used to make patchwork quilts to keep the family warm.   Many of the patterns in the quilts looked like the animals or objects used on the farm.

 
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Look at this patchwork sampler quilt.
Find the log cabin.  Do you see a basket of eggs?
What else do you see?

 

If you made a patchwork pattern,
what would you name it?


Go on a scavenger hunt!

Eight Hands Round : a Patchwork Alphabet, by Ann Whitford Paul
              Find a child's toy, an animal, a Bible story, a tree, and a President of the United States!

 Make a quilt alphabet book of your own with different pattern names.  You can get ideas from
The Quilt-Block History of Pioneer Days, by Mary Cobb

                                                    

 

Crazy Quilts
are also made from scraps of fabric,
but there is no set pattern. It's just crazy!
 

The Crazy Quilt, by Kristin Avery
The Boy and the Quilt, by Shirley Kurtz

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Sometimes quilts have pictures and words on them.
This Peace Quilt was made by school children from every state in the United States
.  What do you see in these blocks?

 

The Quilt Story, by Tony Johnston
Why does Abigail's quilt have a falling star on it?



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