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A Common Thread Quilt Project

Designed by Jane Blaile

by Diane Johnson

03/11/2008

Educators around the world are 'uncovering' curriculum through their participation in the 2008 Target® Iditarod Teacher on the Trail^TM project, "A Common Thread".  Jane Blaile, this year's teacher created this project to connect classrooms through an act of kindness, a "no strings attached gift", a student made quilt, a project that share the lives of the quilt makers to the receiving school.

Students in participating schools created a quilt that was sent to an assigned school in Alaska.  Each quilt was an incredible unique display of the local culture or a topic that was being studied by the quilt makers.  The receiving gift has only one responsibility, to receive the gift.

View the blog that shows some of the quilts that were made by the teachers who registered for this project.  Congratulations to participating schools who cared to share a colorful piece of their world with Alaska.

 http://iditarodcommonthread.blogspot.com/

Questions about this project or future projects?  Email djohnson@iditarod.com