APPLIED ARTS CURRICULUM

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6th Grade Knitting and Needle Felting:  Students learn to knit and felt.  In knitting, the girls learn the knit and purl stitch, how to cast on and off, to increase and decrease, to create a sampler.  Needle Felting is the craft of using a specially designed needle to turn wool roving into dense dimensional shapes. The students will learn to needle felt flat forms, and 3 dimensional shapes

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7th Grade Quilting:  Students learn to cut and piece fabric.  They also learn color and pattern placement and techniques unique to quilting. 

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8th Grade Sewing:  Students will learn basic techniques of sewing, reading a pattern, and functions of a sewing machine.

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