num_pages: 48
description: MOTHER AND DAUGHTER grandmother and granddaughter aunt and niece friend and friend. For a hundred years generations of women from Gees Bend have quilted together sharing stories trading recipes singing hymnsall the while stitchin and pullin thread through cloth. Every day Baby Girl listens watches and waits until shes called to sit at the quilting frame. Piece by piece she puzzles her quilt togethertelling not just her story but the story of her family the story of Gees Bend and the story of her ancestors struggle for freedom.
language: None
title: Stitchin' and Pullin': A Gee's Bend Quilt
publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers