New 4-H Quilter Wins a Special Ribbon!
 

I have to share this with you all--I have been leading a 4-H project group in quilting this year. This quilted bag was made by the youngest girl in the group, a 12-year-old! With my help, she learned to draw her own pattern on freezer paper. Then she selected her fabrics an did all the construction. She learned to cut with a rotary cutter, match her corners when piecing (and rip them out and try again when she missed), and put in a full lining with a zippered pocket inside! Throughout the process she would occasionally ask, "will the judges look at this" when referring to a detail she didn't feel was just right. I would tell her, "yes, they probably will". Then she would do her best to make it right.

All of her effort and attention to detail paid off!

Here is a picture of her bag displayed in the 4-H building at the county fair last weekend.

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She must be so proud. Congratulations to her and thank you for encouraging a new young sewist. The bag is great

great for her!!!

How beautiful! I think you have probably instilled a lifetime love of sewing! Congratulations to her!

She deserves the blue ribbon. Her bag is so so pretty. She did such a great job on it. Congratulations!!!!

Her bag is beautiful and it sure looks like she did a great job! She should be proud and so should you! Congratulations to her (and to you)!

This girl is a natural quilter! She did a wonderful job. Good for her.

Well done, please pass along all the compliments on her wonderful work. To see such attention to detail and hard work in a young person is to be commended.
She did an awesome job!

That is lovely and please tell her congratulations and you are to be commended for encouraging and mentoring her.

Congratulations to you both. A job well done. I was sewing my own clothes by the time I was 11. My mom taught me the value of matching seams and how to use a ripper. I still can't draft my own patterns if they aren't a flat piece, but admire those that can. I still have to match my seams to within a 16th of an inch, unless it's under a belt, then I can go 1/8". LOL A lot of years sewing garments and now I sew quilts. Thanks to you, fabric and sewing will probably be a part of this young girl's life forever. I am so glad you shared this with us.