Just jump in and do it! Ask LOTS of questions.Definitely pick a pattern that doesn't require matching up seams and has pretty big pieces.
I just explained how to make her first quilt to my niece over the phone/ over the Internet using nothing but a straight line stitch, big pieces, and using her computer to print pictures onto material. She got an A in her class from the quilt she made. It was an English/history project on Shakespeare. She used freezer paper to print a picture onto material using her computer printer, then added strips and a border to the squares and finished it off by hand tying it like the the picture above from SharBear.
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