Comfort Quilts 2000 - 2001
Each school year, we make comfort quilts to share with children who need comforting. Read below to learn about the comfort quilts of the 2000-2001 School Year. Go to Our Comfort Quilt Story 2001-2002 to read about the most recent comfort quilts.
In the 2000-2001 school year, we made a comfort quilt for our Visiting iEARN Pakistan Teacher, Mrs. Ashraf Ali, to take to the Pediatric Center at a hospital in Karachi, Pakistan.
First, we designed nine square patches with smiling faces for the quilt and then our teacher sewed the patches together.
Click on "Making Comfort Quilts" to learn more about how to make comfort quilts.
Then, we presented the finished quilt to Mrs. Ashraf Ali on her last day at Sunnyside School. Read more about our visit from Mrs. Ashraf Ali.
Comfort Quilt for the Pullman Emergency Medical Team
We are also making a comfort quilt for the Pullman Emergency Medical Team ambulance to comfort children who need to ride in the ambulance to the hospital for emergency care. Here is the comfort quilt for the ambulance. It is 2 feet wide by 1 foot high.
Here is a close-up of one of the patches. We hope the smiling faces comfort and cheer-up children who have to ride in the ambulance.
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Our
classroom coteacher helped make this quilt.
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She showed
us the quilt layers with backing, quilt top and quilt batting.
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She showed
us the quilt backing.
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She showed
us the quilt binding.
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She showed
us how to sew the binding.
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She helped
us sew the quilt binding.
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We took turns
doing the sewing.
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Two classmates
are showing the finished quilt.
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We presented
the finished quilt to the Pullman Emergency Medical Team. They will
keep the quilt in the ambulance to comfort children being taken to the
hospital.
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The Pullman
Emergency Medical Team (EMT) was very happy to receive the quilt. They
thought it would help comfort children!
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The EMT Captain
read the message on the back of the quilt. It said," To the Pullman
Emergency Medical Team from Mrs. Rennebohm Franz's and Mrs. Sontgerath's
Sunnyside School First and Second Grade Class to comfort children.
May 30, 2001."
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To learn more about how the School Year 2001-2002 Class made Comfort Quilts in response to the September 11 tragedy in New York City, take the links below:
Our Comfort Quilt Story 2001-2002
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Chapter
1
How We Made the Comfort Quilt Patches |
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Chapter
2
Ironing The Patches Onto The Cloth |
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Chapter
3
Sewing the Comfort Quilts |
To learn more about how we make our comfort quilts and about comfort quilt projects in past years, take the links to:
Puerto Rico Comfort Quilt Project 1998/99
Ronald MacDonald House and Children's Hospital Project Spring 1999
Nicaragua Peace Corps World Wise Schools Partnership 1998
Return to Social Studies 2000-2001