Jessica finished her quilt
 

If you remember, my 19 year old granddaughter, Jessica, wanted me to teacher her to quilt. Her "boyfriend was in boot camp and she wanted it for Christmas. Bear in mind, she had NEVER even sat at a sewing machine. I decided on an Irish Chain, which I thought would look good and be fairly simple. Apparently I was shook up by the request, as I cut out all the 2 1/2 inch squares instead of 2 1/2 inch strips :p!! But I must say she did all the sewing, I cut the fabric (I was afraid of her with a rotary cutter!!), she did the quilting, I did the sandwich and binding. For some bizarre reasoning, she wanted a purple monkey from fabric that was just laying around, on the label??? I did a machine blanket stitch around the monkey, then she machine stitched her name and date. I did warn her about getting too personal with the label. (in case it didn't work out between them. Did I mention, she is a little flakey??) Without any more ado, Jessica's first quilt!!
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Wow, what a talent

wow you both did a great job

It turned out great! Another quilter is born.

That is great. I am sure her friend will like it. She did a good job on her one on one square piecing. Jessica, now that you know how I hope to see many more of your quilts.

Great job Jessica very handsome quilt.

A gift of love for sure. Good Job!:thumbup:

She did a great job!! You sure MUST have been shook up, to cut squares instead of strips. LOL Congrats to both of you.

He's going to love it! Great label too!

great to see young people quilt
nice

Wonderful!! She did a great job!

Great Job! I love your nails too!!! :)

Really great job!!!!! Her label is really cute!!!!!!

Great job, will be looking forward to seeing more from that young lady.

Great job, keep up the good work, i forsee many beautiul quilts from this young lady

Wow, she has a good start. The quilt is wonderful

Great job and cute quilt.

Wow this is amazing for a first try. Love your machine.....I have her twin with me, and I love her....she is quite a workhorse!!!

Wow! All those individual squares and they look like they're sewn together perfectly. Good job!!

Wow what a wonderful quilt. Very masculine. She will be hooked in no time.

Please tell her how well she did...you too GM!

Both of you have done a great job!! A future quilter, perhaps-? :)

Nice job. Looks great. I love the U.S. Army fabric.

She did a wonderful job.

wonderful lst quilt. nice to have good help, when you lst get started. maybe she'll be more willing to keep on quilting since she got a great finished quilt the lst time. way to go, and yeah!!!!!!.." teacher".

she did such a wonderful job. and the fabrics are perfect! i love her label

She did a great job for her first quilt. You both should be proud ! Is she already planning another quilt?

She should be proud. Hopefully she will want to continue with it and learn from the pro.

It's so fun to teach and/or sew with your grandkids. The moments are so special. And your granddaughter seems to be a great quilter in the making. She must have had a good teacher/role model.

Just beautiful, thank you for sharing, Jessica did a terrific job
Have a Blessed day
Ellen

Beautiful. And I love the monkey.

she had a great teacher! job well done

Another quilter! I think it's absolutely lovely! You go, Jessica!

Hope she keeps up the quilting ,she did a great job for her first go at it.

I think a serious quilter has been born, especially sewing 2 1/2" pieces together instead of strips. Great that you were able to teach her.

A wonderful quilt. You are a good team.:o

I can't imagine her making an Irish chain with BLOCKS.HA Maybe strips huh. But BLOCKS! Very, very pretty and GOOD SEWING!

Love it....Great Job...both of you. Merry Christmas to you and yours.

Good work and keep on quilting.