Week 12 (K5): The Quilts of Gee's Bend / Folding & Cutting Rectangles & Squares

hello friends welcome to art week 12 and this week we are in a white folder uh just like last week in uh that week 11 through 13 uh folder on quilts so we are in our second uh lesson about quilts and i'm gonna jump right into our slides here so we can check out what we're gonna learn this week so first let's take a look at uh this really unique quilt on our screen here what kinds of shapes can you see in that quilt on the screen all right indeed i see i see some rectangles i see some triangles i even see a few squares all right i see a blue square i see a green square and i see a yellow square up there so many different shapes in the design of that beautiful quilt all right and this quilt is uh by a very special group of quilt makers that all came from the same community in a state down south in the united states called alabama okay in a little community called g's bend all right and uh we see uh three of the women up in the corner there who are some of uh many uh just some of the many famous quilters from g spend uh arlenzia pettway annie mae young and mary lee bendolf up there in the corner there and here are some examples of their quilts look at the variety look at how unique and colorful all those different shapes in those designs so impressive and you can really see especially that big one in the middle there what does that look like that's made out of right looks like jeans like pants you even see the pockets of some of the pairs of jeans in there remember we talked about last week how quilts are often made um out of scraps of uh clothing uh that that uh are in the family uh maybe like a brother sister or something that doesn't fit them anymore or like grandpa's old work clothes and there you go they cut them up into scraps and make these beautiful quilts uh so fantastic so much variety and we're gonna focus even on one family uh the pet ways okay this is one family uh in g's bend has so many uh quilters in the family i just have pictures of three of them there but that's just some of uh the people in this family who uh are part of this um quilt-making community in g-spend um you see arlonzia up on the top there we saw a picture of her in the last slide and the very bottom picture that's rita mae pettway uh and kind of a fun uh milwaukee connection uh there is a quilt uh in the milwaukee art museum that rita may pettway made and you see that one right there on the right of the screen those beautiful colorful squares wow incredible so you can see that at the milwaukee art museum and i actually uh when uh they had a traveling exhibit years ago uh that came to milwaukee at the milwaukee art museum that had um many of the quilters from g's bend there's a little picture of a museum exhibit of their quilts i went to go see it it was a fantastic show and there you see a picture of the milwaukee art museum uh that neat looking white building there on the lake so we are going to be eventually making our own uh really neat um quilt square designs out of paper uh but first we need to get our shapes okay we need uh this is going to be kind of like the clothing scraps uh that uh the quilters in g's bend used uh but we're gonna be using paper and we're gonna this week we're gonna focus on two shapes rectangles and squares okay so um if you the the slides here uh which are in our white folder they also have uh the step-by-step directions of how to do each of them if you'd like to check out the google slides for week 12 later on uh when you are working on these but i'm going to go ahead and demonstrate them what you need to start with is remember those four construction paper squares that we made in our last lesson okay you're just gonna pick two of them out you can pick any two colors you want i picked out uh green and purple for my examples here but you can whichever colors you chose for your four squares that we made last week you're going to pick out two of those squares and we are going to use those to do some folding and cutting to make our rectangles and squares so i'm going to go ahead and oh and actually before i jump into the demonstration i'll just show you real quickly uh where you can find the white folder this week so let me go to schoology here i can get it working why is it not working for me here we go go to your art class in schoology and you're going to go down to the white folder that we were in last week um quilts right here and you'd open that up and there's another white folder inside there the week 12 folder you go into the week 12 folder and the top choice is the video we're watching now and the slides that i referenced earlier are right under there all right let's jump right into our demonstration so i'm going to switch to my tabletop camera and i will show you first how to do rectangles so you're going to want to i've got my four colored squares here you're gonna need your scissors um and then optional you could get a pencil or a marker to um that'll help you with uh if you'd like to draw the lines uh to cut on that uh we will get to in a bit um but first i'm going to pick up my two squares that i'm using all right so i'll put my my um yellow and orange one those are the ones i'm not going to use so i'll keep those in my safe place remember we want to keep our all of our supplies for this quilt project in a nice safe place where it won't get folded or spilled on or lost or anything like that and i've got my purple and green here i'm going to start with my green and we're going to make some rectangles so step one you're going to fold it in half so i'm going to match up my corners really good all right i want to match them up real nice kind of like last week when we matched up the corners for uh i'm cutting out our squares when we put our white square on our colored paper to trace it gonna match up those corners really good the best you can and just try our best right and once you've got it matched up hold that down really tight right there and then you can take your other hand and just smooth away from that hand that's holding down the paper really tight clamping it down and there we go make a nice flat fold and now i'm going to open that up and i've got a line where i fold it okay that's where you could use your pencil or marker if you'd like to draw on that fold line so it's going to be easier to see because we're going to cut right where we folded i'm going to go ahead i'll use my marker so you can see it really well in the video but if you'd rather use pencil that's fine or if you'd rather just not make the line at all and just cut on the fold the fold is a little hard to see on its own but maybe you can do it if you got eagle eyes and then i'm going to take my scissors and cut right on that line and very simply that's how we are going to do some simple rectangles this will give you two rectangles there we go all right so i'm going to put my all of my uh put that with all of my other quilt uh materials we will use these uh in our next lesson but that's how you make two uh perfect rectangles okay just one fold and i'll put that in a safe spot now let's work on our squares okay so i've got my purple piece here this first step is the same as the first step for making rectangles you're basically doing the same thing you're going to line up those corners take your time to line them up good you don't want them all crooked right i want them nice and even as best you can just try your best once you've got them lined up clamp down don't let that move and then smooth out away from your hand make a nice fold right there okay so that's our first fold that would be the same as what we just did when we made our rectangles but we're going to fold it one more time now now i'm going to fold this side and match down to that side so i like to take a finger here to help me bend that paper because it can be hard the more you fold a piece of paper the trickier it can be to fold it and i'm going to try to line up i'm lining up those corners the best that i can there we go just want them nice and even you just don't want them very crooked like that right you want to try to line them up as straight as you can and then clamp down on that side and then take your fingers and smooth away got to be holding that nice and tight so it doesn't get away from you and there we go all right two folds that's all it took i'm going to open it up and there you go you can see the fold lines and this would make one two three four squares okay so you could go cut on those folds right there if you can see them well or you can use your pencil or your marker to carefully make a line right on the same crease that's what you call the line uh of a fold where paper was folded right on the crease and i'm trying to there we go draw right on my creases there and now i'm going to cut on those lines and when i have that done i'll have four perfect squares and uh we will make uh two more shapes for our quilt designs in our next lesson but i think this is a good good amount of work to work for this week because those folds that can be kind of tricky take your time trying to make them nice and straight because the straighter and more even your folding is the straighter and more even your squares are going to be and that's going to help um for when we do our actual paper uh quilt design that you can uh make really neat so there we go i've got my four squares and i put those in a safe place with my other ones so there we go that's all it takes folks we just made rectangles and i'll show them to you my two rectangles and my four squares all right those are going to come in handy uh next week so keep them in a safe spot and i'm going to switch back to my face camera here and now it is your turn friends to make your paper rectangles and squares take your time be patient all right we just try your best and have fun and uh good luck friends

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Length: 13min 39sec (819 seconds)

Published: Wed Dec 02 2020