Your daughter is adorable! I love the bag. Now mother...you must learn to share~
I think it is great to have something that both of you enjoy!

She did a beautiful job and YOU are blessed! What you have is not a problem but a blessing!

Oh, you are so lucky. So many young girls today don't have a clue about how to sew. I had to beg my Mom to teach me to sew and that in itself was a chore. Use this as an opportunity for her to learn how to earn money for her fabric, how to coupon shop for the best deals.I had to babysat to or do chores to earn my fabric money as a young girl. If all else fails, separate your fabrics into what she can choose from and what she cannot. I'm sure you have fabrics set aside for projects of your own.It would be very hard for me to let a young sewer learn on beautiful fabrics that cost a lot, that I had chosen for a special project. She is doing a great job. She is adorable and so is her bag. PM me her name and address and I will send her some scraps big enough to sew on. I have some cute cupcake fabrics and coordinating fabrics that I made a quilt from for my 17 year old GD.

COOL PURSE!!!!!!

I wish I had problems like that. Can't get daughter or granddaughters interested in quilts. Won't even take an interest in what I make.

Wonderful!! My 12 yr. old granddaughter is also starting, but she lives a couple of hours away, so my stash is quite safe; for now. Hmmm, good idea, hide it. Enjoy.
Judy

Love her Bag!!! Please encourage her...wish my Mom did...

I love that bag, she really did a good job. She is cute as can be too.

Can I have her? How wonderful to have a daughter like that, enjoy!

Great how fun except for the cutting up of your stash. Oh well it's going to good use.

The bag is really neat. Maybe she could sell some of her bags and earn money for her own stash. I'm sure her friends would love them

What a great bag, care to share the pattern?

OmG!!! WhatI wouldn't do for that!!!!

Beautiful bag! And a beautiful young lady. I'd say your stash will be in danger forever now that she has the fabric flu. There is always going to be a new pattern to make. Time to put her to use at all those fall festivals and church bazaar's. From the looks of it, she could possibly earn her keep. LOL

Love your daughter's interest! Ha... what comes around goes around... Now just find her a great paying job to help fund her interest!

Well if your not spending your money on fabric for her it would just be something else. Be thankful it is something you two can enjoy together.

Lucky you! I wish I had taken up this wonderful hobby when my daughter was still home.

Beautiful young lady, and she did a great job on her bag, nice colors she used and I love that you have inspired her to follow your footsteps into the world of quilting. Hope she gets her wish for Christmas!

Good for her!! She did a great job on her bag!

She is beautiful and she sews very well. I would let her sell what she makes to encourage her to earn those trips to LQS

I love it they grow up so fast and are gone spend all the time you can with her and share your stash (you could hide some favorites} but enjoy your time together

You are so blessed to have such a willing student with this huge amount of talent [must be from hanging around her Mom] and dreams at such a young age. Many wonderful life lessons can be learned through her interest in quilting, as stated in the above posts. Thank you for sharing your daughter and her ambitions.

I agree. How about a simple ledger system? Every time she takes from your stash, or you buy fabric for her, it goes in the ledger. The point isn't to keep track so she can pay you back. The point is to teach her what fabric and her craft actually cost. Right now, I'll bet she hasn't a clue about the costs. You can make it more fun by having her break it down into monthly/yearly costs, or break it down into fabrics, notions, etc. Anything to give her an idea of what the costs are. Just keep it light and fun. Maybe you can give rewards for keeping it within a certain range, or something like that. You're her mother. You'll know what motivates her!

You are so lucky to have a beautiful, talented daughter who is interested in the creative craft that you love, and works together with you on it. What could be more special?

Best of luck to you!

you have the best quilting buddy!! She's a very talented (and pretty) young lady!

first of all she did a great job on the purse,second of all Good Luck with replenishing your stash for 2 now,instead of one !!!

That is so neat, out of 3 girls I didn't have that problem, so you are actually lucky!

12 was the age I started sewing. My mom bought herself a new Elna (way back when) and I started using it and never stopped, so you better watch out.lol

Awesome kid. She definately needs to get a job. When I was 12 I wanted new hiking boots and a new backpack. I cleaned houses to ear the money (of course when I had enough I quit so I could go hiking). Perhaps she could do jobs for you to earn her sewing fabric?

She is beautiful and so is her bag.

Well I will say it again, she is beautiful and the bag is cute too. I wish my daughter was alive to share my quilting addiction..and I have all grandsons so no luck there unless they marry someone who I can share with lol.

Cute daughter and bag! Much cheeper than drug and alcohol rehab so many
young people need! You may just need to shop yard sales or thrift shops for
finds and let her earn her money. How fun to share a hobby!

Very cute bag and daughter.

By sharing a hobby with your daughter, you keep the line of communication open for other things. I raised 3 daughters and communication is so important when especially during the teenage years. She will ask about quilting and the conversation will go on from there. Besides, having a "quilting buddy" is fun!

I'd like to amend the post I made pages back. Yes your beautiful daughter still makes a beautiful bag. For her future....you have the greatest oportunity right in front of you. She's showing an interest in something you like and are good at. This is the time to teach her from the quilting ground up, but make it non-teaching conversations . Educate her to thrift stores first then the LQS. Show her the fabrics and talk about qualities of each one.Bed skirts have lots of fabric and the falls are sometimes cotton and very reasonabley priced and pretty too. If both of you are up to it, make an Altzheimers quilt together. It's one of all fabrics as the people like to feel the diferent fabics and may bring some fleeting memories back. Even polyester and denim. You'll have some that stretch a bit, corduroy and velvet or velveteen have a nap, making it look different from different angles, etc. After it's finished she'll have learned about different qualities of the fabrics while learning some sewing. and you don't want to donate it, give it to a deserving dog; they like the different textures. Jst my quarters worth, enjoy the ride!!

Don't know if this has been suggested as haven't read all the posts.

Now that's a "Chip off the old block"! (And a cute one too.)

She is doing great. There are always more fabrics to buy, so let her have her fun. Its nice to her about a young lady who wants to sew and is actually doing it!

Congradulations on such a great daughter.

Hello, long time lurker, my girls got their machines at 7 and 11. They loved my Pfaff. At first, I taught them on it but then when they got their own machines they got lower end kenmores. It was so hard to reteach them! As my machine had many features that theirs didn't!

I now had 2 people at one time to share stash with - and they were into creating large scale projects. My advice is enjoy your daughter now because as they aged they have sewn less and less and asked for me to sew more and more for them.

OH, by the way several of our boys know how to sew too! I can at at least say that the majority of the 7 can handle a sewing machine for simple things and a handle needle two!

Lee

Teach by example teach her how to use recycled fabric. Some of those fabrics you've been holding on to are only collecting dust and will never get used so let her have them. My daughter is 11 and we enjoy doing the fabric thing as well. we shop for pieces at thrift stores as well as retail- she is becoming thrifty and is learning how to get the most out of a piece of fabric.

Thank you all so much for the kind words she has loved reading everyone of them and so have I. Over the weekend she went thru our linen closet and found sheets I thought I had gotten rid of long ago andshe started cutting them into strips with the GO and wants to make quilt/s for the homeless shelter. She also made a note and copied it and gave it to a few of our neighboors asking for their old sheets or extra fabric to help with this cause.

I do love the fact that she sews with me and is excited about the craft. I dont' want to get too excited but would love a mother/daughter sewing team.

Thanks again for all the nice words,
Happy Sewing
Tammy and Grace(dd)

I guess she should start her own stash with her own fabric or pieces from what your giving her to use. that way maybe she'll use her own things for her projects. Cute bag and little girl. Have fun teaching remember only that age once and she wants to learn. Sue

I have two granddaughters, ages 7 and 9, who both quilt. The oldest one got her first sewing machine at 5 years old. When we go to quilt shops, they spend so much time deciding which fabric is just perfect for the current project. It's wonderful to watch. I was at their house yesterday, and they both have a project laid out on the floor to decide on placement of the squares.