My granddaughter is 12 and started sewing with me when she was 10. For her first project, I took her to the fabric store and we picked out fabric and a pattern for a tote bag. Since then she has gone through my fabric stash several times and made small quilts of her own design. The first was just large squares. For the latest project, she put appliques on each block, using the fancy stitches (as she calls them) on my Janome Horizon 7700. Needless to say, she doesn't like to use my old machine now. Her imagination and creativity astound me -- quite different from mine. She uses colors and combinations that I would never use, but when her projects are finished, they are quite colorful and unique. Treasure the time you two spend together sewing. It's awesome.
Janet