Decorations Tell Stories
The story "Selina and the Bear Claw Quilt"by Barbara Smucker is a story a little girl who delights in watching her grandmother sew pieces of fabric together to make quilts. One day her family must move far away, grandmother feels she's too old to travel and stays behind but first sews Selina a quilt to take with her. Before she leaves, curled up on her grandmothers knee, Selina hears the story behind where each piece of fabric came from.
Many years ago some children from Creative Minds helped to sew a quilt, gosh, it must have been about 16 years ago as my son, who's now almost 20, was one of the sewers!
The children were intrigued and eager to take turns finding similar patterns
in fabric and identifying the shapes of fabric used.
Using tangrams everyone had an opportunity to use problem solving skills to cover a puzzle. This is similar to a quilter have to problem solve as he/she thinks of how the pieces of fabric will fit together to create the design
they want.
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