Challenge #3 in our month-long series of Kids’ Day challenges, is to make three granny squares – the building blocks that you can use for any size quilt or blanket you wish.
To help you find some inspiration, we’re putting, for this week only, a few of our favourite quilts on display at the Museum. One is a knitted quilt, made from stitched-together little squares very similar to the granny squares we’re challenging you to make this week.
There are a few pieces of crazy quilting, like the photo at the top of the page, which might also inspire you to patch together a fun and colourful blanket out of scraps.
And there are also two or three other historic quilts, each of which has an intriguing story attached. So come on down – we’d love to show them to you and tell you all about them!
(I’m not putting photos of them here, partly because they’re too big to take photos of and partly because if I do, you won’t need to come down! But here’s a photo of a stunning modern quilt, made by the Fibre Artisans who meet here at the Museum. It’s called “A Slice of Creston, and it’s now on display at Fly in the Fibre. You really should go see it, too.)
