Crazy Quilts: Further Resources

• Step-by-Step Tutorial: Visit this page for videos and a supply list to use in your classroom.

• Additional Resources, curated by Crafting Communities research assistants: Consult a one-page info sheet with a list of scholarly readings, blogs and websites, instructional videos, extant examples, and 19th-century tutorials.

• Reflections on Critical Craft: What can students learn from this activity? Read our research assistants’ reflections on their experiences with the Crafting Communities Crazy Quilts tutorial.

• Victorian Samplings Podcast S2, Ep3 (“Textile Stories”): Listen to curator Lucie Heins talk about the history of crazy quilts. 

• Check out our page of sample syllabi and assignments for more ideas about how to integrate crazy quilts into your humanities class.