Clay Wall Quilt : The Ultimate Family Craft Project

The both stories give you a clear understanding of what the characters think about the quilts and why they're so important.The main idea behind the quilts is to let the reader know what the characters have been through and what memories were formed in their lives.In “Everyday Use”, The quilt was made from their grandma's old dress and the grandpa army uniform. In “My Mother Pieced Quilts”, the mom used old dresses and nightgowns.The Daughter reflects on her mother's memories when she runs down and up of the quilt.There are sculptures of their family and in the quilt, there's death and life, love.The quilt becomes a

Other yarn dolls were not dressed with felt or material; instead, the yarn formed the dress for a girl, or the pants for a boy. Yarn dolls were made during the Colonial American period from homespun yarn. Throughout United States history, the most popular handmade doll was the cloth, rag, or yarn doll, especially during Colonial America coming as far back as 1630s.

Almost everyone has something in their family that has a very special meaning. Most of the time that object has something to do with family heritage. This is definitely true for the poem "my mother pieced quilts" by Teresa Acosta and the short story "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker. In the poem "my mother pieced quilts" by Teresa Acosta and the short story "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker, both author's use imagery and figurative language to establish the quilt as a symbol for family heritage to illustrate their themes. Family heritage is what brings family together.

There can be great comfort in understanding one’s heritage especially when it involves the deep love and devotion of a strong mother. The poem combines family and love with the quilt to show the memories that she has shared threw the generations that have had the quilt. In the poem “my mother pieced quilts” by Teresa Paloma Acosta and the short story “ Everyday use” by Alice Walker, both author’s use imagery and figurative language to establish a quilt as a symbol for family, love and memories to illustrate their themes.

In the poem “The Century Quilt” by Marilyn Nelson Waniek the “Century Quilt” is a nostalgic necessity of the narrator. The upbringing of nostalgia throughout the poem is the telling of an Odyssey, a journey home though not physical but emotional. Through the constant use of pragmatic imagery that is erupting with allusions to the past and the unusual use of form that gives the poem a platform to project itself Waniek is able to produce a stunning display of emotion and nostalgia that displays the complex meanings of the quilt and the vital importance of it to the narrator.

| Copper bracelet and beads, amber pendant, 3 colored pots, colored pottery figurine and colored bowl with charred barley

In regards to Kofi Annan, it is believed that we all need to join together in order to live in a strong environment and we need one another in order to grow stronger as a nation. Kofi Annan once said,” We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.” This statement emphasizes the significance of finding common ground due to the fact that it explains that everyone needs to get past their differences in order to come together and grow to make the environment and nation they live in superior. Two authors in this unit also argue that individuals need to find common ground. In “A Quilt of a Country”, Anna Quindlen claims that conflict unites all people. Likewise, Eboo Patel claims that all people work together to overcome

Native Americans are the indigenous people of the North American continent and the cultural traditions and art forms are unique to these regional groups. The people in these groups have several names and the first adopted name Indian by Spanish explorers proved erroneous, however, now accepted names include either American Indian or Native American. I will refer to these groups as Native Americans or by their tribal affiliation. There are diverse tribal groups original to North America who lived on the Great Plains, in the Woodlands, on the Northwest coast, and in the Southeast or the Southwest regions. Various Native American tribes created art forms such as the Apache, Cherokee, Pueblo, and Hopi communities. In my research, I found that the Navajo also contributed in many ways to Native American art through making jewelry, beading, drawing, painting, sculpting, carving, and weaving. These art works provided their tribe notoriety with countless “years of experience through their creativity and sense of design”, lending to an “astonishing volume and variety of artwork which has created a lasting legacy”, per NativeAmerican-Art.com (2010). Understandably, art comes in various forms and from various cultures, but the Native American Navajo tribe contributed vastly and merits mention for its beautiful contributions. Therefore, I

This chapter seemed to be a great stress relief for both Clay and Alma. Clay seemed to be slightly more laid back then he had been

Quilting can also be used for expression of oneself or for social commentary. Back in the 1800’s when there were many wars women would usually make quilts because they were what was needed in those times and the fabric was often hard to come by and it was usually saved for clothes making.” It was a means to escape from the isolation of their lifestyle and it allowed them the artistic freedom to express themselves. The quilts produced by our ancestors told stories about their lifestyles that could not be captured by pen and paper. Every quilt we see today, regardless of when the quilt was made, relates a story. The types of fabrics, the design of the quilt, the signature of the quilter, all reveal an intimate story of the woman or man who made the quilt.” (Meeske,Quilt Me a Story) They used quilting to get out of the bleakness and horrible things that were going on in their lives at the moment and put how they felt in the quilts. Around the mid-1800’s women quilted a lot more to show artistic talent, political views, and even their emotions. “Prior to a woman’s ability to vote, some women used their artistic talents and expressed their political views through a quilt. The issue of slavery in the United States in the mid-1800s led to quilt patterns called Slave Chain

The quilts are used in the representation of what heritage means to Mama and Maggie versus Dee’s view of them. Mama describes that:

| 1. Elsie is making a quilt using quilt blocks like the one in the diagram.

The differences that are present in America have engendered countless conflicts all over the nation for many years; Americans have clashed and exchanged blows due to their diversity. Though showered with such troubles, the country, surprisingly, remains whole and has not yet dispersed. Shortly after the tragedy in New York on September 11, 2001, author Anna Quindlen wrote the article, A Quilt of a Country, communicating what exactly America is in her eyes. Through her argument, she expresses that America is a remarkable nation filled with people who are able to unify once there is a common objective, despite carrying warring differences and quarreling once before. Quindlen starts by first presenting the troubles frequently heard in the news,

Culturally, the symbolism of a quilt is understood to be an heirloom piece that is closely guarded and highly prized. The ownership of the quilt and the generational lines it passes down is known before the piecing is begun. Stitching the pieces together is done by groups of women. The tiny bits of cloth each carry a memory, one from grandpa's shirt, one square from an aunt's Christmas dress, a piece from the flannel nightgown a mother wore as she pulled her sick child close to her bosom. The pieces are carefully and artistically pieced together into a collage of

would take thin pieces of wood about 10x10 inches. I would outline a very simple drawing of different