Regional Quilt

An American Tradition: In the early eighteenth century American women created a unique way to express themselves. Their talent came part from need itself, and part from a need to find a creative outlet. Having limited access to fabric they had to make every scrap count, thus the tiniest scraps were saved to piece together with other scraps to create quilts for warmth. The first quilt was probably created just for that purpose alone, warmth, with little thought to the finished pattern, but as time passed, women discovered these scraps of cloth could create beauty of their own. This need and creativity gave birth to a new art form - the American patchwork quilt.

• Quilt squares were made by participants at the 2001 Regional Honors Institute.
• Click on a square to view a larger image. The larger images can be downloaded for your yearbook