Thanks to all of you for your loving words and many, many compliments about our 8th grade quilt! My students are beaming!! You have really been so sweet. They are thrilled that their quilt is being seen and admired by people all around the world!! :-D :-D I let them read some of the postings, and their eyes just sparkled with pride!

I absolutely love these children. I am so blessed to have them in my life. Their enthusiasm for this quilt was so inspiraitonal. One of them said today that she wished all of them could have had a quilt. When the winner of the quilt brought it in today so I could take some close-up pictures, they all drooled over it again, stroked the fabrics, and complimented each other on their flakes.

I am sure your students learned a lot from this project. It is quite attractive. Maybe you turned on one student or more to quilting.

The student who won the quilt at the auciton actually won one of my other auction items two years ago: lessons in how to make a quilt. I included all of the supplies, and I gave as many lessons as were needed. We titled her quilt "Puppies and Posies" because it had dog heads and tulips on it; all made with HSTs. She loves it! Needless to say she is hooked!! She caught the bug! :lol: She had her mother buy her a sewing machine so she could make more quilts. Her most recent one was a tee shirt quilt. So the torch has been passed! :wink:

The quilt is beautiful. Those nameflakes are awesome.

What a great idea. I love that. Thanks for sharing.

Lovely quilt and story Pab58 - children are so creative with a little encouragement - hope they all turn out to be quilters one day

Great project: teamwork, symmetry, science (fusing the fabric), measurement, art. I bet you hit state standards in all areas!! Congrats.

I was just thinking...you could submit this for several grants, and I bet it would make a good presentation at teacher conferences or inservices. You could tie in your state standards and demonstrate that creative teaching is still alive in spite of NCLB.

You and your students are very talented. This is an amazing quilt.

YES I love it!