I should really stop these sewing jokes, I’m running out of material.
Recently, my class has been working towards making and designing our very own quilt squares. We were split up into groups of four or five people to make our quilts. In my group, we decided to use an abstract style to represent our assigned parts of our heroes’ journey. My quilt represents the end of our heroes’ journey. In the end of our story, the people who were saved by Juno built a statue of him in honour of his bravery. The islanders also named the island after Juno and over time built a big and healthy civilization on the island.
I designed my quilt to look like a brick wall to signify how the civilization supports itself and how it used that support to get bigger and better over time. I coloured the top and bottom layers of bricks gray to represent the cities, the pavement, and roads. Near the middle of my quilt square I coloured it black and red to represent the memory of both Juno’s death and bravery. I coloured the brick layer in the middle gold to represent the statue that the people built of Juno in honour of his strength. In the final brick layer which is just above the golden layer is a layer of green and blue used to represent the good people of Juno’s island.
I found this project to be very enjoyable as well as a great learning opportunity for me to learn to sew. I look forward to more interesting projects.
Here’s a whole bunch of links from my group for the other parts of Juno’s journey:
Part 1: Calum’s Part: http://www.blog44.ca/calumo/
One day there was a young man named Juno, he didn’t have very many friends or family, although, everybody knew him. His mother had died when he was young, and his father abandoned him, so he was very lonely. Every morning he would get up and do the same thing over and over again, but this day was different, because as he was sipping his morning cup of coffee he heard cries for help just outside his house. He courageously ran out and saw people running and heard and saw gun fire.
Part 2: Mimi’s Part: http://www.blog44.ca/mimiz/
He grabbed as many people as he could and ran to the nearby forest they ran for miles until everybody was out of breath by now it was getting dark and everybody was getting very tired so they decided to go to sleep. The next day everybody decided that they would go around the coast instead of back through the village, everybody thought that was the safest way. They walked for days on end and many people were very wounded, so they slowly died as they were walking. Finally they got to the village after surviving off of berries and water from the streams, everybody was famished so they ran to the nearest shop but something was wrong, nobody was out on the streets.
Part 3: Quinn’s Part: http://www.blog44.ca/quinnh/
Quinn’s part: Finally they got to the village after surviving off of berries and water from the streams everybody was famished so they ran to the nearest shop but something was wrong, nobody was out on the streets. they then decided to take a boat off to another island (which was their original plan) as they were leaving the dock they heard cries for help Juno jumped out of the boat and pointed the lady to the direction of the boat and just as she got in there was a person with a gun shooting at the boat so they quickly steered away nobody was hurt until they realized Juno was bleeding.
Part 4: Aiden’s Part: http://www.blog44.ca/aidens/
After boating for a few days Juno begun to slowly become weaker from the infected wound and eventually died.