My grandaughter, Brianna, wanted to make a quilt so I chose the Birdhouse BOM for her to do. She is choosing the fabric, tracing and cutting out the pattern on the fusible and ironing it onto the fabric. I'm cutting the pieces out and then she's ironing them onto the background. She's done a great job! She wanted to use the fall fabric I have for another quilt so I stopped at Joann's and got her own 8 FQs of fall colors to go with what she chose from my stash.

Next she'll learn how to sew them on.

Those look really good!! What a wonderful thing to do with your granddaughter. Good memories for the both of you. I hope to do the same thing eventually....

She's done a great job.

Very nice. Looks like your talents might just have skipped a generation. How large is the final quilt going to be?

She is very interested in sewing and we've done one quilt together already. The blocks are 8" and there are 24 of them with probably 1" sashing plus border.

looks great, way to go in encouraging her.

That's a grand set of birdhouses. Well done for encouraging her. A new quilter in the making is always good to hear about.

She is doing a wonderful job on her birdhouses!!!! Way to go!!! Sounds like you both are having fun on this quilt :D :D :D

looks like that's a really fun thing to do together... can't wait to see it finished

Loulou

Awww... I'm so proud of her. I was off doing something else around the house and she did one of them totally by herself, start to finish, and it looks great too.

I gave her a pointer that it might help to trace the straight lines if she used a ruler. She didn't get the ruler but I looked at one she was working on and she was using the edge of a hard cardboard square that was on the table.

Improvising and using what's available even at her age. :wink:

What a fun thing to do together and have her learn by. That is going to be really cute.