WIP Wednesday

Hailey my 12 year old has been piecing a quilt for the past few months.  She did a good job, the corners are not quite as square as I would like them but she is 12 and this is HER quilt.  Yes, it's hard for me to let her do things with less perfection than I would like.  Quilting/ Math...... the list goes on.  That is why I could not let her be in my Math class I taught at her school last year,  she stresses me.  

She has almost finished though.  Today she machine quilted 1/2 her quilt and tomorrow I will assist her in the other half.    Her fabric choise was Adorn It, and she made a pillow to match along with a pillow sham.  She will enter these into the county fair next week as her 4-H project.

My current project is a quilt for another niece who just graduated and will be coming to college near our home in a few weeks.  She didn't really have a favorite color, just a preference of 'deep' colors.  I love the feel of Batics and so they were my choice, these are by Moda.

 

Today I have been sewing together the blocks I created right before we left on vacation. 

All the while I do this piecing, I am dreaming of making a beautiful quilt like this one with Sew Kind of Wonderfuls Urban Escape pattern.

I went to a trunk show by Jenny and Helen and fell in love with a lot of their quilts.  So I purchased their quick curve ruler, a few patterns and just can't wait to start another project!

I'm linking these up with Freshly pieced! WIP and Let's Bee Social whose tabs are on the side and Kelly at My Quilt Infatuation

4h

Call me crazy but I have decided to take on another project, 4H sewing.  I have two daughters  10, 12 that each like to sew a little but need to learn better skills. My oldest is doing a more advanced, quilting project.  My younger and the other 6 girls from our community are starting with the basics.  Last week D2 sewed this pillowcase using a lot I picked up at my local cotton shop store.

We sewed it using the instructions from a  YouTube video published by the Missouri Quilt Company 

I haven't been sewing a lot lately because my machine had been having a few issues.  At the local HMQS last month I finally did it!  My friends from the cotton shop were so shocked when I just walked up to their booth and said I wanted to purchase the babylock Aria machine.

I was strong and saved it for my birthday before pulling it out but now, I am learning how it really sews!  It's a beauty and sews like it!  

My project I'm working on right now is a buggy barn folk art flower quilt, made with the Riley Blake Apple of my eye line. Sorry about this picture, I laid out the quilt on my D#3's top bunk to see how it fit and then took a picture, better pictures will come.  It's ready to quilt but I am still practicing on my new machine!

I'm linking this up with freshly pieced! WIP and Let's Bee Social