quilts

When a young child brings a tired old woman a swatch of cloth, she begins making a quilt and her spirit is rejuvenated.

Because the author's great-grandmother, a new immigrant to America, felt lonely, her mother devised a special way of helping her.

Worried that the coming of a new baby and her grandmother's serious illness will change the warm familiar life on her family's Vermont farm, ten-year-old Ariel combines her artistic talent with her grandmother's knowledge to make a very special quilt.

Provides information about tessellations--designs that interlock perfectly in repeating patterns, and explains how to create tessellations through an understanding of the different symmetry groups.

Presents 120 quilt patterns with instructions and pattern pieces for making them.

Cooperative Quilts features 20 quilts with easy-to-learn directions as well as 10 to 15 additional activities that span the curriculum and enhance the learningexperience.A great way to teach cooperative learning.