Ideas/help for a leaving teacher's quilt

Jan 10, 2008 6 Replies

Hi everyone. Due to health reasons, and a crazy couple of months with family activities and holiday celebrations, it has been awhile since I've popped in here. Well, I'm feeling much better, and although the activities aren't slowing down any, all the holiday activities are now done as well and I can get back to quilting and the group.



I just found out that my son's preschool teacher will be taking a break once the year is over, after many years with the school. She is such a wonderful lady, and the parents and kids all love her. It would be nice to give her something special to remember her preschool days. It would also be nice if the kids were some how involved. I haven't talked with any parents yet, so I don't know if there is anyone that would be able to help yet.



I thought maybe the kids could do handprints and their names on fabric and then they could be incorporated into a quilt for her. I have no experience with this and wouldn't know what to use to put those precious little hand prints onto the fabric. Any ideas? What about their names? Pigma pens??



I have also seen a pattern some where that looks like film negatives filled with pictures. That would be fun to get some pictures from over the years and put together as well.



Any other ideas for a quilt???



TIA!!!!


Handprints would be great. You could use the transfer crayons--neater for young children than paint.

Monique in TX

We had done three of these as an afterschool program. I "think" we used fingerpaints on one quilt. We just traced their hands with a pigma pen on one quilt, and we traced their hands with crayons on another one of them.

Sherry Starr

My daughter made two of these for my grandson's first grade teachers (team teaching is the trend out here) She printed a photo of each child on squares of fabric and sent them home with instructions for the parents to help decorate.They were supposed to use any fabric paint or fabric pens that they wanted. She drew 'borders' that the designs were supposed to stay inside. Each block was unique but unified by having the photo in the center and sashing. She had a couple of other Moms in the class do the sashing and she put the top together. Quilting that fabric that you put through your printer is a bit tricky and she didn't want to quilt over the photos anyway so it was just done in the ditch.

The finished quilts are viewable at:

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