Shape

Design a Quilt

A Shape Project

When the first Americans came to the new world, they brought with them their arts and crafts. Quilting became an extremely important craft because blankets were needed to keep warm during freezing winters.

Today antique quilts are treasured by their owners and passed down from generation to generation. These useful works of art took a long time to make because they each contain thousands of tiny stitches that were all sewn by hand.

Colorful quilts kept the settlers warm because they had three layers that trapped in heat and kept cold out. The bottom sheet was plain, and the middle layer was thick material called stuffing. The top layer had lovely patterns.

A quilt started out as a number of small squares. Each square was made from scraps of colored material, which were sewn to form a picture or pattern. When there were enough patches, the squares were all stitched together into a large design.

Many designs were created within square shapes and were made one at a time and then assembled square by square to create large quilts of different sizes.

A Quilt Square

The square on the left can be copied and pasted into your own paint document.

Use a paint can fill to fill the individual triangles with different colors and patterns.

Then reduce the size of the design and copy and paste it to repeat the pattern like a quilt.

Here's an example...

This square was reduced in size and repeated to create the quilt-like design on the right.

This square was flipped horizontally and vertically as well as rotated to create the patterns on the right.

Design a Quilt		A Shape Project
	When the first Americans came to the new world, they brought with them their arts and crafts. Quilting became an extremely important craft because blankets were needed to keep warm during freezing winters.
Today antique quilts are treasured by their owners and passed down from generation to generation. These useful works of art took a long time to make because they each contain thousands of tiny stitches that were all sewn by hand.		Colorful quilts kept the settlers warm because they had three layers that trapped in heat and kept cold out. The bottom sheet was plain, and the middle layer was thick material called stuffing. The top layer had lovely patterns.
	A quilt started out as a number of small squares. Each square was made from scraps of colored material, which were sewn to form a picture or pattern. When there were enough patches, the squares were all stitched together into a large design.
Many designs were created within square shapes and were made one at a time and then assembled square by square to create large quilts of different sizes.