Student's assignment turns into quilting project
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Constructing a quilt with intricate detail and good craftsmanship seems like a daunting task, but one 11-year-old girl learned how to do it in about a day and it took her one week’s time to complete a small quilt.
Fifth grader Sarah Adams of Industrial Elementary East made her first quilt as her Gifted and Talented project. She had to choose a certain style of quilt from a different era so she did research on different kinds of quilts and decided to make a Crazy Quilt. Crazy Quilts were popular during the Victorian period (late 1800s).
“That’s when all of the rich ladies sewed quilts and got patches of all different types of dresses of theirs and then they would just make random patterns and put them in blocks,” she said.
She said it is very difficult to make a quilt because of all of the patterns in each block and it is hard to make all of the patterns at the exact same size that you want to make them. Her GT teacher Ericka Barr said her project is about patterning or studying different patterns.
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