Hello everyone, yes I am still here and alive. Life just gets really busy from time to time and this has just been my time. I just wanted to show you what I have been up to lately. One of my daughter's made the suggested that I should teach my little grand daughters how to quilt and then the next day two of my grand daughter asked me to teach them. I had seen this quilt block over at
Lurline's Place on Low Volume Quilting and it had stuck in my mind. I love the low volume, they are so lite and pastel looking.
This quilt pattern came from '
Sunday Morning Quilts' by Amandra Jean Nyberg & Cheryl Arkison. What a cute and simple block and how easy it would be to sew together. I changed the directions a little so that when the girls sewed 18" strips together and cut them it would make 2 blocks exactly the same with about 4" left over that could be used in the borders. This way the girls even helped with the outside border..
Here is Cassandra with her 16 blocks. I am amazed at how good the girl sewed their blocks with exact 1/4" seams.
And here is Lydia with her 16 blocks. Great job girls. To start off with I asked the girls to sew 6 blocks each and if they did they would have a twin size quilt for themselves. Then mom asked for double bed size, so I gave mom a sewing assignment and they all did what was asked of them and more. Then mom asked for one for Amelia who would be going into a bigger bed soon. So.....2 twin quilts grew to 3 double size.
This picture and the next is Cassandra's quilt all finished. I even talked the girls into sharing their blocks with their sister so that all the blocks would be different in each quilt..
The backing for these quilts came from lefted over fabrics and other fabric in my stash that the girls liked.
This is Lydia's quilt. This all took us about 1 1/2 months to start and finish the quilts. The girls helped me cut the fabric with my accuquilt, helped pick out more fabric when the quilt sizes grew, pieced, pressed and cut their blocks. Then when the time came they picked out their quilting pattern and help me quilt them on the long-arm machine.
The next two pictures are Amelia's double bed size quilt. She even helped mom sew on the sewing machine one day.
Just so Amelia would not be left out for a time, I made a quilt for her daybed, which my daughter did not know about until I gave them to her.
All of the quilts have labels on them, which was so much fun to make. I will have to do more like this. I used my EQ7 and designed them and then printed them on fabric sheets and sewed them onto the quilts. Very FAST! Mistake was made in the label and now needs to be corrected, the girls did sew 16 blocks each, not 12.
Just love to wash the quilts after they are made. I love the look you get when you do not prewash the fabrics. Thank heavens my family room is big enough to lay out 4 double size quilts all at once.
All wrapped up and ready to give to the girls. Each with their name showing on the top and Amelia's second quilt is inside the center of her big one.
It was later in the day by the time we got over to their house and Amelia had already gone to bed, but Cassandra and Lydia were as happy as Christmas Morning! Each of them opened and started to play with their quilts.
I understand that there is some kind of a quilt club going on over at their house.....I will have to check it out and get back with you later.
What fun we had. Cassandra is 8 and picked up on quilting like she had been doing it for years and Lydia age 6, just loved the whole process of the quilting. Both are looking forward to the next quilting lesson with grandma. Now just what are we going to do?
