I haven't logged into my blog in what seems like forever!! The school year is nearly over and I am finding lots of ways to incorporate what I learned over the summer into my class. My Kindergartners are going to be the best at UGRR information! I have 4 quilts finished and two more to do for my grant. The ones that I have done are my Monkey Wrench quilt which I had pieced before we left but finished completely after we got back.
The next one
I finished was my Bear's Paw quilt. If quilts had been used as signals folklore says this one would have instructed escaping slaves to follow the path of the bear to find water and a way through the woods.
After this one I made a North Star quilt which would have told escaping slaves to follow the North star. I love the colors in this one!
The last one I finished is a quilt that matched the book Patchway Path. It's about a little girl who escapes to freedom with her father guided by the quilt her mother had made. I
used the Eleanor Burn's Underground Railroad Book as patterns for the blocks but adapted them to match the pictures in the book. This really makes the book "come alive" for my students when I read it to them and then show them the quilt. They think it's like magic!!
