Last week I picked Eliza up from school and then we went fabric shopping. She's wanted to make a quilt for a few years now, and after turning 8 I figured it's just that TIME. She's always helped lay out the quilt blocks or take pins out of the sewn blocks, so she's earned the chance to make her own quilt.
We spent a TON of time looking at all of the fabric at our local quilt shop. Then I forced Eliza to narrow down her choices. We'd settled on making a "Crazy Eights" quilt, using 8 coordinating fat quarters. So, you'd think it'd be easy to find 8 that we liked. But...alas...Eliza is my daughter.
We finally settled on 8 and then we went around one more corner. Eliza's eyes got all big, and I asked her if she liked this line of fabrics better than what she had in her hand. She squirmed a little and then she said, "Oh, I do, but it'll take so long for us to decide on which ones to buy."
I then had to teach her the lesson of being happy with our purchases. If you get home with fabric that you don't really like, and you cut it up, you'll be sad with your finished quilt....
So of course we put the others back and ended up with these ADORABLE prints. She was so excited with all of the snow days we've had this week (4 out of the 5) that we had time to cut out the pieces for the blocks.
HAPPY QUILTING!
6 comments:
thats fantastic! i need to go to the fabric store and decide what i want to make my quilt out of... i also need to decide what pattern i'm going to do. and then i need to decide if i'm going to do it or if i'm going to beg mom to do it for me :D any suggestions on some super easy yet nice looking quilts i should make? this will be the quilt i take to college with me.
oh yeah, way to go Eliza! I loved talking to you last night on instant messenger, i hope you feel better! <3, Aunt Marci :D
Oh, Eliza, I will claim you as MINE--your heart is so much like your grandmother's. I hope your quilt turns out to be as gorgeous as it looks like. Wonderful choices of fabrics!
Grandma PenGwen
so much fun! I bet Eliza will be an expert quilter!
(I am jealous of your sewing and cutting table!)
I'm spoiled, I'll admit it. That table makes for VERY easy stippling. I LOVE it!
Eliza is so great!! and the fabric is so cool! That's fantastic-o! I'm still trying to learn those important lessons of picking out good fabric.I still haven't finished the quilt that I started at Brett and Sarah's when she was PGand I have another here too that is 3/4 finished. I guess it helps to have your heart into it. (Dedication??? That's not in my vocab.)
So, I am not a quilter, but I always spend SOOO much time in the fabric store when I am making something. Once I told Jon that I wouldn't be that long. HA! There's too many choices sometimes.
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