EmiliasNana

Great job Mom. I have always wished that I could have taken wood shop when I was younger. Sewing is a valuable lesson for all, and as one poster mentioned, can be used to reinforce math skills !

tessagin

Ditto what she said. All you have to do is just look at all the quilts from the past to the present and so many degreed angles. I still think they should bring Home Ec back into all the schools. That class would be using geometry and math with the different fractions and metric measures.

Yooper32

Great layout and allover, a swell job. Bet you're proud of him.

LITTLEOLDME

Good for both of you, guys need the skill of sewing also, Mom isn't always going to be there when they need a repair done. nice quilt

oldtnquiltinglady

Beautiful quilt, and happy young man--you can see his proudness. I am trying to instill the love of sewing/quilting into some of my grandchildren--some it works on and some it doesn't. I did work with my 17 year old GS in cleaning a couple of my old black Singers and he loved that; just a little short of patience and stay at it until it is right thing.

Rennie

Not only a great quilt top, but a great idea for having him do it. One thing I always wonder about - even reading this board - is whether the next generations will be as involved in quilting/sewing as our generation (I "speak" baby boomer myself.

So do any of you with married children or grandchildren see that interest being carried forward?

PolkaBabe

He did great. Hope he keeps it up.

bezzie2013

I love the quilt even more so that it was made by a young boy sometimes life makes decisions and men think sewing and quilting is not for men I am all for guys sewing adn quilting

SewExtremeSeams

Great job!

I did the same thing years ago with my daughter when she was about 12. I remember her exclaiming to me, "I "have to" learn to sew?" with her hands on her hips. She went through many hard times of ripping out, etc. until she got seams right. In the end she learned to make beautiful clothes for her self, earned money sewing for others at college, worked in a wedding gown business for a while. Then, she and I had the pleasure of sewing her wedding gown together! Sewing was a skill passed down to me and I wanted her to have the same skill taught to her. If she didn't use it when she grew up, it didn't matter to me. At least she would have the skill.

cathyvv

It's a cute quilt. Great job and I can't wait to see the next one! Is he going to quilt it, too?