I have made two baby quilts with a friend who is a garment maker with excellent skills. It took the first quilt to help her begin to understand the principles of measuring, color, layout and how changing the size of any block or cut impacts the whole project.
So for quilt #2, I suggested a wonky star quilt because it would allow her to play with color, and why some don't work well together. This pattern also was gracious with errors in cutting and squaring up. They would disappear in the "wonkiness" of each block.
I needed stitches in my tongue on quilt one, but kept reminding myself of the value of our friendship and to look at this as a teaching moment. Quilt #2 was much more fun. Yes, for her a hard pattern to wrap her head around but she loved the end result and now, feels more understanding of the process and skills needed to construct a quilt from choosing fabric to adding a label and binding. ....By the way, we are still friends! <3
