For three years now I have been teaching my niece how to quilt.
She made her first quilt when she was seven. The quilt is a tumbling blocks layout and she chose and laid out the fabrics herself. She also traced and cut out the pieces herself and sewed the initial pairs together.
The next summer she made a large rail fence quilt. She picked all her fabrics and sewed all the pieces in the blocks together. We also hand quilted the quilt using large stitches and size 10 crochet thread.
This year she is making a jelly roll quilt from "jelly roll inspirations" by Pam Lintott. She chose the Tropicana batiks by Moda jelly roll and a cute contrast batik in lights with butterflies.
She is doing some of the rotary cutting this year with a Klutz glove and doing all of the sewing and ironing.
She loooooves to sew!!
We'll be back with more later!
