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STRIPS 'N CURVES
Students make color selections and make sure they are aware of correct strata construction for this innovative combination of straight lines and gentle curves creates zingy but easy-to-make quilts.
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SMALL QUILTS WITH VINTAGE CHARM
Students use the book "Small Quilts with Vintage Charm" to utilize the steps and techniques to make a quilt. They focus on accurate cutting, sewing, and fabric selection.
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SKYDYES
Learners 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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SIMPLY STARS
Students produce quilting stars that challenge students with unusual piecing situations, and the sampler format allows quilters to create freely with unusual fabric combinations.
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THROUGH THE GARDEN GATE
Students bring a flower picture to class. Instructor helps them choose fabrics to reflect the flowers in their picture and interpret their own garden palette and then do a collage quilt.
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A THIMBLEBERRIES HOUSEWARMING
Students can choose from 22 projects in A Thimbleberries Housewarming utilize simple quiltmaking techniques appropriate for a single class or a short series of classes. Directions are clear and complete and contain specific fabric...
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Magical Four-Patch and Nine-Patch Quilts
Students designa unique quilt with specific blocks using eleven colors. Each student selects fabric colors, creates blocks, and using strip piecing expands the blocks to make a quilt.
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Mariner's Compass Quilts: New Directions
Students follow the steps of creating Mariner's Compass blocks using two different methods, freezer paper templates and paper foundations. Then they draft their own original full size block on freezer paper.
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Sewing Introduction
Middle schoolers are familiarized with required sewing equipment and markings. They learn fabric terms, pattern markings, sewing equipment, and symbol identification.
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Story Quilts
Students create a classroom story quilt based on a story (or series of stories) read as a group.
PBS
This Is Home: The Hmong in Minnesota
This radio series gives an up-close-and-personal view of Hmong history, culture and the challenges of resettling in the U.S. Listen to, or read transcripts of, interviews with Hmong refugees, a clan leader trained by the CIA as part of...
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art: American Needleword in the Eighteenth Century
A beautiful presentation of needlework from 1700s America, accompanied by an explanation of the type of education girls and young women received during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and how fabric arts were a prominent part of...
Other
Doll Classes and Craft Classes Online Crafty College
This site offers on-line classes on many different types of doll making. It has close up pictures and a name for each doll. You can view the dolls for free,but must sign up for a class to get full details on how to make it.
wikiHow
Wiki How How to Make an Umbrella Skirt
Collect all those unusable umbrellas and recycle them into an article of clothing.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Arts and Crafts
This encyclopedia article from Wikipedia details how the term "arts and crafts" came into existence and lists a wealth of links to other encyclopedia articles on different types of arts and crafts. Links are provided for additional...
wikiHow
Wiki How: How to Satin Stitch (Damask Stitch)
The satin stitch is a type of stitching where you stitch a series of stitches side by side to decorate a fabric or attach one fabric to another.
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Gizmo Highway: History of the Sewing Machine
This page from Gizmo Highway presents a good history of the sewing machine, which also includes a picture.
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How to Make an Umbrella Skirt
Collect all those unusable umbrellas and recycle them into an article of clothing.
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How to Make an Umbrella Skirt
Collect all those unusable umbrellas and recycle them into an article of clothing.