Rainbow Quilts

I have 3 quilts currently on exhibition at the River of Dreams Quilt show. They are based on the 7 colors of the rainbow. I made a stack of half square triangles per color which I used as the building blocks for all of these quilts:

The first and biggest quilt is my original idea. Every child in my son’s class designed a square. There are 21 kids, divisible by 7 so perfect for this project! They got to pick their 4 color squares and arrange them as they pleased, drawing it on a worksheet for me to sew. They picked a random color for their border out of the 21 available. I brought back the individual squares sewn with a white space below where they signed their names. I then sewed them together to make a rainbow.

The second quilt is based on the teacher’s square. He designed a square in a square with the white space in the middle. I wanted to show the secondary pattern, 4 color squares, so I put 9 together which made it about the size of a baby quilt. I put a white strip on each side so the class could sign it when they were signing their own squares, and gave it a blue border since he has a baby boy.

The third quilt is a rainbow in diagonal stripes. I made it for the library of the school.

This was a very gratifying project, especially seeing how much the kids enjoyed the quilts. We went to see them at the quilt show on a field trip last Friday.