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ey wanted the quilt to look it was coming to life milly came to school every week with fabrics they were gorgeous i asked her if she had purchased them at joanne fabrics her silence was deafening i compare this faux pas to asking a lady wearing an original oscar de la renta if she got her dress at k mart milly was kind she understood each visit we spread out the sketch on a big table children came to find a favorite part of the sketch and pick what they felt was the perfect fabric for that part lizzie was especially interested in the horse and wanted blue fabric i smiled a big smile here s why this was lizzie s second year in my classroom children often spend two years with me as it is a full day multiage class lizzie rides horses on her farm she adores horses more importantly the year before when we prepared for our annual art show lizzie was struck with the painting large blue horses by franz marc she worked at her masterpiece over and over five times to be exact by the time she finished the paint was so thick and heavy i was worried it would fall off the wall at the art show can you now imagine the thrill that lizzie felt when she picked out just the right blue fabric i did and i told milly about the art piece while we watched lizzie each child had a similar story or a reason milly was the provider of the feast and children came to the table to find their favorite foods it was that simple milly got it as the quilt progressed each week gloria would pop in and check things out when milly finished the quilt she asked me about the writing and lettering how i wanted to say peace i hadn t thought about that i was so consumed with each part of the quilt milly was way ahead of me she was looking at the forest while i had been looking at the trees i said milly you decide and she did she arrived at my house held up the finished front of the quilt and i burst into tears i never cry but my tears came out like a flood when i saw this magnificent work of art did you know that milly only sews by hand she never uses a sewing machine that means when she began to quilt this fabric she did so stitch by stitch many weeks went by as she came to school and let the children watch her sew they were mesmerized it seemed as though watching each stitch connect their special ideas made the quilt all the more important our next step while milly quilted was to make a book a peace poetry book we took all of the children s ideas and put them into a rhyme a dog and a cat a heart on a tree autumn leaves falling into the sea stars and a rainbow triangles of white chicks and flowers peeping and bright puppies and kittens a cow and a moon a big bright star a truck that goes vroom a horse and duckies a heart that is red the color of yellow peaceful thoughts in my head when the quilt was finished there was a big todo in town the newspaper came to do an interview and get photos the library wanted to hang the quilt for a while this was big does the quilt look familiar to you i hope so it is my blog photo when the dust settled i told the world of this remarkable quilt including sending an email to the national liberty museum i thought they might enjoy knowing all that had transpired since we recreated their peace portal their reply was not at all what i expected and completely changed the course of events frankly it was a shock just when i thought this was finished that our quilting adventure was at an end i was so wrong little did i know what was about to happen was the beginning stay tuned for part 4 jennie posted in art community gloria imagination inspiration peace poetry quilting teaching young children the arts tagged gloria milly the quilter quilting with children the peace quilt 49 comments milly the quilter story part 2 posted on june 25 2026 by jennie in part 1 i discovered a peace portal at a museum and recreated it in my classroom peace became a big deal and very real to children when i saw quilts that were murals i knew i had to make a peace quilt with children the only problem was finding a quilter at last i met milly it was an unexpected meeting part 2 milly is the best quilter not just in town but everywhere said the director of the senior center great when can i stop by and meet her she ll be here on wednesday with her quilting group wednesday couldn t come fast enough for me as soon as school was over i was there i walked over to milly and introduced myself she smiled sort of and i bounced around telling her all about the haitian quilts i had seen at the bennington museum i was so excited i showed her photos of the quilts spewing story after story of each one and their art i noticed that the other quilters were looking down at their work sewing like mad as if making eye contact with me would bring a plague upon the group the more i talked the faster they sewed and the lower their heads dropped all six of them hmm milly hadn t said a word not one word it occurred to me that perhaps i was behaving like a child who had been let loose in an amusement park but this was such a terrific idea and those quilts were stunning each one told a story here are but a few i finally stopped not sure what else to say clearly i had overwhelmed if not alienated milly and her fellow quilters i put the brakes on and told milly all about the peace portal and how making a peace quilt would be the culmination of all we had done in the classroom i held my breath i asked so what do you think milly quietly put down her sewing i ll never forget what she said to me her very first words i am a traditional quilter i quilt blocks squares i have never seen or done any quilting like that this would be completely new and different a challenge and i d like that challenge yes i will do this and so a peace quilt was about to be created first the children had to design the quilt what does peace look like how does peace make you feel how was i going to link that concept of peace to a quilt how would i start what would i say to children after all the peace portal was last year and many of the children were new and then it came to me i knew right away of course gloria yes gloria has a blanket we always called it her blankie what if she wanted to call it her quilt her peace quilt because it makes her feel so good peaceful brilliant gloria milly came to meet the children meet gloria and hear all about her idea i have never seen a friendship develop so quickly milly and gloria hit it off right from the start we gathered for a group meeting the conversation went something like this gloria she s a little frustrated everybody calls this my blankie but it s not i love this but it s a peace quilt not a blankie long pause then gloria continued it makes me feel good i love snuggling with my peace quilt look at all the pictures see there s a puppy and lambs look at the pink i like pink and the best part is the back with all the stars when i go to sleep at night i have my stars right with me this is my peace quilt wow you could have heard a pin drop gloria asked what do you like on my peace quilt fifteen children descended on her each one wanting to look after all they were now really looking at the quilt as if they had never seen it before it was amazing what they saw and yes the stars were the most popular gloria then turned to milly and said hi they stared at each other just stared then gloria spontaneously gave milly a snuggle in her neck milly grinned from ear to ear what do you think milly what do you like they had a long and lively discussion children watched gloria said we could make our own peace quilt what do you think yes we can gloria said milly over the next week we pooled together all of our ideas children had terrific ideas of peace they understood gloria had helped them to do that little baby peeping chicks kittens stars many votes my heart cows flowers ocean of blue and green the color yellow autumn tree puppies horse white triangles rainbow duckies big star dogs truck that goes vroom hearts we rolled up our sleeves rolled out the big paper to sketch our ideas opened our hearts and got to work a classroom parent and artist came in put all the ideas of peace onto paper not an easy task when the children are in charge little did i know how the sketch would look much less the quilt and then what would happen with the quilt how would milly do this with the children more importantly would she connect with children stay tuned for part 3 jennie posted in art community diversity expressing words and feelings gloria imagination inspiration museums peace teaching young children the arts wonder tagged haitian quilts milly the quilter peace peace quilt 46 comments milly the quilter story part 1 posted on june 22 2026 by jennie this is part 1 in perhaps the best thing i ever did in teaching really some of my old bloggers will remember this gripping story there are 1o parts and the story is absolutely wonderful hang on for a great ride milly the quilter every good story has a great backstory to know how milly came into my life and tell you about her early years in my classroom i have to back up and tell you what really happened it s a great story and began what would become a legacy hang onto your hat it happened like this my husband and i were at a fall wedding in philadelphia we had an hour to spare and went to the historic district to visit carpenters hall after the tour we had ten or fifteen minutes until all the museums closed directly across the street was the national liberty museum so we headed over walking into the museum i was thunderstruck by a magnificent peace portal i stood underneath soaking in all the beauty the museum was closing and i hadn t moved from under the peace portal i can do this i told my husband i need to do this in my classroom we can build this on top of the loft it will be a place for children to go to just be children need peace and so it came to pass i contacted the national liberty museum to get permission to recreate their peace portal they were thrilled little did i know that peace would become an enormous part of the lives of children they loved being on the loft sitting thinking reading and playing under the peace portal we had made children felt the same way that i felt under the real peace portal i decided to talk to children and ask them how peace makes them feel colin said peace makes me feel hearty i said so peace makes you feel strong that s terrific colin he looked at me in frustration patted his heart and said no jennie heart y their thoughts were so remarkable that we made a peace poetry book in the spring it is card catalogued at the public library our school year of peace from making a peace portal to writing a book of poetry was a very good year little did i know this was only the beginning the stage had been set for milly and i had no idea that the museum would play a big role the following fall my husband and i went to the bennington museum in vermont to see their grandma moses collection we walked into the front entrance to see a display of haitian quilts these were murals as detailed and stunning as a painting i was frozen this must have been what the first people felt when they saw the ocean or the grand canyon i know that look said my husband do you really think you can make one of these at school no but we can design one peace was a wonderful part of school last year and the children wanted more this is it we can make a peace quilt we looked at each other and said in unison we need a quilter meeting milly was not what i expected and certainly meeting me was not what milly expected at all stay tuned for part 2 jennie posted in community imagination inspiration museums peace preschool quilting teaching young children the arts tagged bennington museum milly the quilter national liberty museum peace quilting in the classroom with children 70 comments remembering jane yolen posted on june 19 2026 by jennie children s book author jane yolen has passed away she was a gifted author and her books are well known she made a huge difference in the lives of children and me i want to honor jane with my memories of her i d only been teaching a few years when jane yolen s book owl moon came out it was one of the best by that time in the mid 80 s i had already become glued to good books and very picky buying a book was a big deal on a preschool teacher s salary but i bought this book children loved the story and i read it to them over and over again it was late in the fall and i thought we could go owling just like in the book we did parents loved it and we heard an owl answer back this was the first nighttime event anyone had done at school can you imagine being close to the woods at night at school calling for owls i wrote a blog post about going owling jane read the post and replied in the end of course fame and fortune don t matter it s the child remembering your story with great fondness that is important only that jane was a presenter at the eric carle museum years later hearing her speak was just wonderful better yet her daughter was also speaking and when she talked about owl moon i blurted out it was you you were the little girl in the book she smiled the audience did too after the presentation i had a chance to meet and talk with jane yolen i told her all about going owling with my class after reading her book oh we talked and talked everyone in line to meet her was fascinated i m a huge fan of jane yolen s how do dinosaurs books i think i ve read every one and i often give a stuffed dinosaur along with the book as a gift i can t say enough about the dinosaur books they are in rhyme and perfect for 3 8 year olds great writers say important words jane yolen said writers have ideas it s what they do with them that counts we need teachers to turn on the lights for us it s hard to read and write in the dark the author isn t important their writing is don t write down to children they will know and remember the words last year i was invited to jane s birthday party lucky me here s the best part a child in my class who went owling came along to the birthday party we were there a little early so i dragged this shy child now an adult up to meet jane yolen she was scared i was not jane remembered the story of going owling and there she was meeting one of the owling chldren it was a full circle moment rest in peace jane you have made a difference jennie posted in books children s books death and dying early education eric carle museum giving thanks heart inspiration joy literacy picture books preschool reading reading aloud teaching young children tagged how do dinosaurs jane yolen owl moon remembering jane yolen 62 comments our wish tree at the library posted on june 13 2026 by jennie after reading wishtree to my library group i knew i had to do more when a really good book sticks with children and they re not ready to let go it s up to me to make something meaningful happen i can t leave children hanging the 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