But there weren't any complaints. I think that being a male, and doing one myself helped reduce the potential negative comments. We also read the book Sam Johnson and the Blue Ribbon Quilt , which is about a group of men who make a quilt to compete with the women at the county fair. I found that some of the boys were better sewers than some of the girls, and actually had previous experience sewing. I guess I had my own stereotypes about the kids that I needed broken down.
Students also read fictional books dealing with quilts and quilting.
Students volunteered to read some of these books to the rest of the class while we were working. I found most of these stories worth the time. In the end, this project was well worth the time and effort. It took us one complete school year, but we accomplished quite a lot. We were also able to cover a lot of curriculum by using our quilt and quilting as the overriding theme.