Exploring Quilt Geometry

By Sarah Fleeman

Quilt Square Designs

from

The Seasons Sewnby Ann Whitford Paul

Illustrated by Michael McCurdy

Album

Crossed Canoes

Bear’s Paw

Dolly Madison Star

Tea Leaf

The Trail of the Covered Wagon

Baseball

Job’s Troubles

Blazing Star

Fish Block

Corn and Beans

Mariner’s Compass

Broken Dishes

Rising Star

Cake Stand

Little Giant

Turkey Tracks

Jack-in-the-Pulpit

Mixed T

FallingTimbers

Reel

Beautiful Star

Fox and Geese

Pine Tree

Beautiful to look at

There’s so much to see,

But while we’re looking,

Let’s learn some geometry.

pentagon

parallelogram

trapezoid

isosceles triangle

Let’s identify some polygons

More polygons to identify

pentagon

rectangle

hexagon

isosceles triangle

trapezoid

trapezoid

Congruent Polygons

All corresponding sides and all corresponding angles are congruent.

Similar Polygons

Similar polygons have the same shape. The corresponding angles

have the same measure, but the sides are not the

same length.

Lines of Symmetry

Lines of symmetry divide a figure into two parts that are reflections

(mirror images) of each other.