Hello!

So in class, we’ve been working on our quilts, and I’d like to tell you about the creation process of my square.
We first created an idea of our civilization, and we created a hero with it. Ours was named Bellator, and in this story he goes on a quest.

My part of the story was Bellator approaching the castle of the Evil King. The sword represents Bellator, the hero, the path represents the long twisting path Bellator has to follow to get to the castle. The red and black at the end of the path represents the Evil King’s castle. I made it look dark and uninviting to show the evil of it.

I started out with a really complicated, detailed picture of the part of the story I was going to draw.

I asked my group if my picture was good, and we decided that I needed to make it less literal and more abstract. I then made it so the mountain and ocean wasn’t there to have more meaningful objects in the picture. My next draft looked like this:

There, I had a different sword than my other group members, but we were showing the same character, which was a problem. Another problem with this draft was the castle was up to far so it was going out of the picture. So, we needed to have the same sword in all our pictures, and I needed to move my castle down.

Here, I have put in the sword we are going to use to represent our hero, but I haven’t moved the castle down, which I need to do.

This is my final draft, ready to print onto fabric! I moved the castle down, and I’ve moved the moon in a little to make sure that it’s away from the edge. Then it was printed out onto a fabric that I can do my quilting with. I sewed the outside edges of the square a dark blue, around the moon with white, the path with brown, the castle with black, the hilt of the sword in light blue and the blade with yellow. The final looked like this:

Next, I’ll show you the full and complete story of Bellator!

Using the storyboard above, we created a story of the founding of our civilization. Below is the complete version of the story.
There are two different ancient civilizations, the Alexonians and the Shoewees, and they are on the brink of war. That war could result in the death of many, many people. Both their civilizations are way ahead of our time in technology. A farmer from the Alexonians, named Bellator, decides to go with the finest sword ever made to attack the Evil King of the Shoewees. The evil King has a plan to rule both civilization’s, so Bellator decides to sneak in and kill the evil king. Bellator sets out for the enemy civilization. He has a little trouble getting in, but manages to get through undetected. He makes it to the Evil King’s castle, defeats the King’s guards and then confronts the King. The Evil King doesn’t think that a small farmer boy could kill him, so he faces Bellator without his sword. That foolishness results in the Evil Kings’ death. Bellator returns home, and now a hero. The leaders of the Alexonians are a little angry with Bellator for going without permission, but they’re happy as well because of what he did. Bellator thinks that there shouldn’t be a chance of another war like that happening, so he starts a civilization called Auxillium. Auxillium means Help in Latin, which was chosen because that’s what Auxillium would like to do. Over time they have helped humans with great monuments and helping the human race survive. That’s the story of how the civilization Auxillium was founded.

Here’s a photo of all four of the quilt squares that me and my group did:

I liked doing this project because of how unique it was. I’ve never done anything like it before, so it was a good experience for me. It took hard work and a lot of thought but overall it was good.