Pattern Designer + Gees Bend

Open this link in Scratch and save it to your profile. This is the pattern desgin template you learned how to use the other day. If you were absent OR if you didn't finish OR if you feel like you need more practice, you should return to this page of the textbook and walk through the tutorials.

Step #1: Open this link to the Pattern Design Program in Scratch (that has all the existing pattern blocks you used before). Be sure to log into using your MCPSS email so that your progress will be saved.

Step #2: Find Inspiration for a NEW pattern: Find the inspiration to draw (not using an existing image) a new pattern. Your pattern should be inspired by at least ONE of the following:

• The Gees Bend Quilts we have looked at in class

• The geography of Gees Bend

• The pattern you put onto the notecard

• The generations of struggle and poverty faced by the Gees Bend people

• The origin stories of the Gees Bend families

• The art and beauty they created in an object they needed to survive

• Other Gees Bend Quilts you found online

Step #3: Use the pattern making program and the costume that is a QUILT/Blanket - create your new pattern. Remember what you design will be repeated over and over again. You are NOT drawing the complete quilt.

Step #4: make a flip grid that has the following components:

• Your code "Printing" the design onto the quilt as the program runs

• The costume that you drew

• What inspired your drawing (hint look at the list above)

• What YOU think is the most important thing that you have learned, heard, or thought about the community of Gee's Bend