Project Description: Each student created a felt quilt block inspired by the quilts of Gee’s Bend and the read-aloud of the book “Belle, the last mule at Gee’s Bend” by Calvin Alexander and Bettye Stroud. The middle school Fiber Arts class assembled the community quilt together by sewing each of the blocks by hand.
Concepts explored: Civil Rights, Martin Luther King, voting rights, quilt, balance (symmetry and asymmetry), color
Techniques used: Drawing, coloring, glueing, cutting, sewing
Materials: 4”x4” felt squares, colored pencils, scissors, tacky glue, needles, thread
Grades: 1st-8th grade
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