Pioneer Quilting
Fourth graders are studying pioneer times in history class. Pioneers were early American settlers who migrated west to join in settling and developing new areas in the 1700s and 1800s.
“We did a fun project involving stitching. We had to stitch four types of stitches.The first stitch I did was a strait-stitch then a back-stitch. After that, a running-stitch and a cross-stitch for the last one. I like how it turned out.”
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Pioneer women often quilted and stitched together. Students participated in a project and stitched their own quilt style square. Each student chose his or her own pattern and colored yarn to use on this project. Students used burlap, a material that the pioneers used.
“We spent a few days working on this project. We had four different stitches we had to use. Running stitch,back stitch, straight stitch, and cross stitch. First we had to make a symmetrical design. We did this because we are studying pioneers and the women would stitch.”