I started my granddaughter with sewing 2 1/2 strips together and when she did that I had her make a snap bag to keep her sewing things (needles, thread, seam ripper and scissors) and she loved that. You can do this with the 5 year old also. After that I taught her the pillow case and she loved doing both. She lived in AL. then, now they live in CA so she is closer so the first thing she did when she came to visit she wanted to make a pillow case for her room. She is coming up when school is out and she is going to make her Daddy a quilt. We will be working with strips blocks and maybe some 9 patches. Happy quilting and let the little one in on it too, she is not to young.
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