Okay, my 9 year old granddaughter came to visit for 3 weeks this summer and she wanted to quilt. Well, i put the masking tape (stacked up 5 times) on the sewing machine bed 1/4" from the needle and told her that all the quilt seams had to have 1/4" seam to be just right. She practiced with several scraps of fabric, making sure she had the seam side just barely touching the masking tape. Within an hour she had it down perfect and she started sewing the blocks together for her quilt. It took us two weeks to finish her quilt and her matching book bag but she learned a lot and we did the work in short spans, like 1/2 hour at a time and here is her quilt. By the way, she did all of her work on my 1953 Featherweight which she found totally fascinating and snapped a picture of it with her cell phone and sent it to her mom. Old technology meets new technology!
Last edited by QuiltingHaven; 10-27-2013 at 08:26 AM.