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Emily is my new best friend...and if I could have only had her stay with me a few more days I'm sure I could have legally adopted her somehow. Her mum and dad, the Aussies, are off performing some pseudo-camp duties with the girls from our church...at a resort-like home with every spa amenity you can think of...they call it a "high adventure" but there is nothing adventurous about it unless breaking a nail while jet-skiing qualifies! Anywho, Emily needed a place to stay for one night before she herself left to go camping - actually camping that involves sleeping in a tent and eating charred food. So I had her for one day and she wanted to make a quilt...she came prepared with TWO FAT QUARTERS and asked if her quilt would be big enough to snuggle up in...for once, someone who spoke my language!
I did the cutting and had Emily at the machine - sewing as fast as any kid in any sweat shop in the world! She seemed to like it though - and I kept her plied with potato chips with lime and soda...great motivators!
Emily picked the "Brown Bear What Do You See" fabric (after a quick run to the quilt shop to supplement the 2 fat quarters!) and it was fussy cut and set with fabric squares from my stash. Em wanted to know why I had so much fabric until I told her to "shop in the stash" and then she got the picture!
The very proud Emily Ball with her very first quilt! She did 98% of the sewing and just look at how great this turned out! With a little luck this top will be quilted by the time Emily gets home from camp!
WOW that is fan-tabulous!!!! You must work well together. Hmmm maybe I could do this with my grand daughter....NOT. Although I think SHE would like it, I'd go nuts!!!
Posted by: Michelle Williams | July 01, 2009 at 08:25 AM
Wow, Nan!! Thats a beautiful quilt!! What a great team you make. I think its wonderful that she is a sewer/quilter at such a young age! I'm not so sure my Daughter would get further than the first row and then tire of the whole process. Then, of course, I would be left with all the sewing!!
Nothing better than quilting, soda and chips!!
Posted by: debbie | July 01, 2009 at 11:16 AM
SEW CUTE!!! Team quilting is a great sport!!!
Posted by: stephanie | July 01, 2009 at 05:40 PM
Did you get the fabric at JoAnn's or somewhere else? I'd love to find some of that!
Posted by: Lisa | August 11, 2009 at 07:14 AM