Today was Pioneer Demonstration Day at Sutter's Fort in Sacramento. The theme was Harvest time. Sophia and I went an got to see some different displays of people doing the things that would have been done at the time the first settlers came to Sacramento.

     Sophia was able to see exactly how wool went from being on the sheep into being a woven rug! She even got to card and spin the wool herself. The woman working the spinning wheel gave her a hand spinner of her very own and some wool roving to practice her spinning! We've ordered some more tools for her to experiment with some felting and other neat wool projects!

     Another thing we got to experience was wheat weaving! Sophia made a braided wheat wreath like the pioneers would have made to save some of their wheat for the next years seed! Sophia also got to grind wheat on a stone mill and we learned what the "X's" sometimes seen on old bags of flour meant! Every X on the bag meant one time that, that particular flour had been through the mill! The more times you ground the flour, the finer it became!

     In the Trade shop we purchased a clothespin doll that is a replica of a doll that a little girl had brought with her to Sutter's Fort when her family settled there.

     I remember visiting Sutter's Fort as a child myself but I was much more interested this time around lol! Sophia had a great time and who knows, maybe picked up a lifetime hobby as well with the wool!