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Sam Johnson is the main character of this realistic fiction. Sam Johnson is a farmer, and oneday discovers that he enjoys sewing when he is forced to fix a rip in the cloth cover that covers his pig pen. He liked the sewing so much that he tries to join his wife's all women quilting club. The ladies are very unwelcoming, so he convinces the men of the town to create a quilting club for men. Both clubs plan to compete in a quilting competition at the city fair. In the end the women understand that it is ok for men to do what women "supposedly" do, because they could be good at it too. The only drawback of this story is that the characters were not that diverse.