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Q Quilt

Explaining a quilt to a group of kids who live in an equatorial jungle is trickier than it seems.

I brought in a quilt from my house left over from chilly Michigan and Ontario winters and the kiddos snuggled up in it for Tommy dePaola's The Quilt Story.

They especially liked the soft boarder, so we added a ruffled on to our collages.









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