Creativity Challenge: Let's make a PACT Quilt

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Creativity Challenge: Let's make a PACT Quilt

Posted by Wilhelmina Perry

It's time to get creative! Can you draw, paint or sew? Join us and make a PACT quilt to represent our community and share messages from our time apart during isolation. We want each PACT parent, child or volunteer to make a design on one square of fabric, which we will sew together into one beautiful quilt when we are reunited!

Do you have a message or experience you would like to share? Keep on reading for instructions, ideas and even a tutorial on how to dye clothing from parent leader Danna Michelley!

Remember to use what you have at home, whether that is some old clothes, a needle and thread or pens and paints!

A quilt created by the Social Justice Sewing Academy

1. Cut out your square of fabric

Draw and cut out a square 20cm x 20cm - I used an old t-shirt

2. Draw out your design

This can be a rough sketch, don't worry if you make mistakes it doesn't have to be perfect.

Think about what message you want to share. Is there an image that springs to mind? A feeling? - I wanted to represent the support I saw at PACT and the power of a phone call with friends.

3. Paint the fabric

Now is the time to experiment, add some colour and see what you think. I only had watercolour paint at home - use any paint or pens you have at home!

*Or try your hand at dying fabric!

Here are some instructions about dyeing fabric at home using natural materials, made by parent leader Danna Michelley!

4. Or add different materials

I had some spare material so I decided to cut out some shapes for the background and details for the phone. I used leftovers from my cut up T-shirt, maybe you could dye some fabric and add it to your design.