Earth Day Quilting/Fabric Art Projects
April 2, 2009 by Mary Emma Allen
Filed under Home & Living
Are you working on any Earth Day related projects, either quilts, fabric art, tote bags and other items?
If you’re talking about recycling and reusing fabric to make your quilts, then our ancestors of days ago were right in style as they reworked worn clothing, cutting up items they could no longer use for the original purpose. They were into Earth Day projects and never knew it.
Image: flaivoloka
Today, quilts are made from recycled fabric and leftover scraps from other projects. Also, quilters and fabric artists create items, such as tote bags and grocery totes with recycling and earth symbols.
Another project involves quilters each contributing a square toward an Earth Day quilt. In this case, youngsters in grades 4-7, are entering an Earth Day quilt block into a contest.
Terri Power, at Morning Earth, has a fascinating way to create an Earth Quilt. This isn’t made of fabric, but of actual natural earth materials placed into like containers. Then the containers are assembled into a quilt like pattern, as the youngsters learn about earth and its components.
Norma Bradley, a multi media artist, creates both fabric quilts and earth quilts. Both of these involve nature and natural images. Fascinating!.
Do you have any Earth Day quilting and fabric art projects under way?
