Lesson 2: Story Quilt Project
Handout 2

Working Together Brings About Change

The Patchwork Quilt
Sam Johnson and the Blue Ribbon Quilt
Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt
The Keeping Quilt
Even though grandma became ill, the quilt was completed because Tanya, mother and Jim all helped to work on it. After Sam was excluded from the women's quilting club, he decides to start one for men only. Both clubs worked separately to complete their groups' quilt for the contest at the fair. Neither club was able to enter though because both quilts were blown into the mud on the way to the fair. Working together to salvage bits of the separate quilts, they managed to put their pieces together and submit one quilt jointly. Sweet Clara had the idea to construct a quilt like a map to show runaway slaves the safe route North. Young Jack and other slaves helped her with their knowledge of landmarks and terrain. Clara and Jack used the quilt to help them escape and left it for others to follow them to freedom.