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Cashton Community Quilters

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders create and construct a fabric quilt symbolizing the heritage of the Wisconsin community of Cashton. They research Wisconsin historical symbols and use math skills to calculate the number and sizes of the quilt squares. ...
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SIMPLE FABRIC FOLDING FOR HALLOWEEN

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Study the fabric folding techniques introduced and lead your class in applying them to quiltmaking, home decorating, fashion design, and other sewing projects. This lesson is geared to making items themed for halloween, but could be...
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Introduction to Machine Piecing

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Pupils discover how to use the rotary cutter, cutting mat, and ruler to make quilt blocks. They make a 4-patch quilt block and write a paper on their first memories of a quilt. They determine how to sew a 1/4" seam and identify bed...
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Fast, Fun & Easy Fabric Vases

For Teachers 6th - Higher Ed
Students construct a fabric vase as shown in the book, "Fast, Fun & Easy Fabric Vases" by Linda Johansen. They cut fabric and appliques using plastic templates then iron on fusible interface. Pieces of the vase are then sewn...
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Covered with Love: A Look at Me Quilt

For Teachers 7th - Higher Ed
Students create a bright and busy quilt to visually stimulate an infant or toddler. They use both hand applique and machine applique to piece together colorful scraps using many different shapes and patterns.
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Make Spectacular Books

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers view a demonstration on how to make a skewer book. Using various types of fabric, they transform it into a skewer book to be used for scrapbooking. They share their books with the class and ask for constructive criticism.
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The Kindness Company

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students organize themselves into a simulated company complete with applications, interviews and training. They identify a community need they can fulfill related to cooking or sewing and work to make and deliver the designated product.
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Crazy with Cotton

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students look at fabrics. They discuss how to print/contrast. They demonstrate cutting center. Students are shown how to trim the block accurately. Students sew in blocks. They discuss how to finish, including tying, machine...
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Color and Composition for the Creative Quilter

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
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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Cute as a Button Quilts

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers create appliqued blocks for a quilting project. Students complete the process of tracing, cutting, fusing, and finishing an applique. They explore button embellishment on quilts.
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Instructors Lesson Plan for Quit the Seasons

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students create quilts. They can create quilts for different seasons of the year. Students can choice what type of projects they want to work on. They are given the choice of taking classes that last 2 months or through the entire year.
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Cut-Loose Quilts

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students review basic geometric shapes to use in their quilt. Combining different shapes, they sew together their cut-loose quilt. They share them with the class and describe the meaning of the quilt to them.
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A Haring Holiday

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars create a holiday ornament. In this Keith Haring art lesson, students use paper mache to make 3-dimensional ornaments that resemble his work. Young scholars cut out felt shapes of babies, dogs and angels then sew them...
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Making a Quilt

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students use vocabulary to describe the quilt making process. In this quilting instructional activity, students collect needed materials, sequence the steps for quilting and create an original peace quilt. Students write about their quilts.
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Simply Sensational 9-Patch Stars

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students construct a 9-Patch Star using foundation units in the required text "Simply Sensational 9-Patch Stars." They discuss fabric selection for the star block. Students cut and label their fabrics.
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Instructors Lesson Plan for 9-Patch Pizzazz

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students make a gorgeous quilt in six hour day! Students bring their own fabric to class, and create a quilt in six hours. The attached handout is copywrite protected, and students must purchase a copy of the book, "9-Patch Pizzazz" if...
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Focus on Batiks

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Pupils discover the characteristics of batik fabrics. Using the fabric, they create a tulip garden wall hanging. They review warm and cool colors and use various stitching techniques for the stems and leaves. They share their...
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TRADITION WITH A TWIST

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students come prepared with their strips previously cut and sew some strip sets together and have them cut the completed strip sets into sections. They stack the needed sctions for the required blocks of units and set all units together.
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Instructors Lesson Plan for Impressionist Palette

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
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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Quilting Bee-Assembly Line Style

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners identify the roles of a producer and a consumer. In this economics lesson, students define the roles of a consumer and producer and produce a quilt using an assembly line.
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M'Liss Rae Hawley's Round Robin Renaissance

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students practice transfering photos to pieces of fabric. Using different techniques, they use their quilt making skills to create a design. They watch a demonstration by their teacher first and then make their own and share it with...
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Portraits from Nature

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers 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...
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SIMPLY STARS

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Pupils 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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Using Foundation Piecing to Create Quilt Blocks

For Teachers 6th - Higher Ed
Students create a log cabin pattern quilt block inspired by an antique silk quilt in the Shelburne Museum. They choose a color scheme and practice the basic technique of foundation piecing. After they complete a quilt block they remove...

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