The Next Generation - a new quilter

I have had my 2 grandchildren from North Carolina here for the past week.  My 7 year old granddaughter had insisted on bringing her sewing machine (we gave it to her last year for Christmas).  She wanted to make a quilt for her American Girl doll.  We talked for quite a while about which pattern to make.  She was a little undecided until she saw the current quilt I've been working on "Come to the Party". She immediately said that's it!!

She selected every single color combination - in fact, she was very insistent on what she liked together and what she didn't like.

We learned about the quarter inch seam and chain piecing - and before she knew it - she had all 16 blocks done.

As you can see, she's in her bathing suit (we were headed to the beach and had a few minutes while waiting for everyone - so of course she wanted to sew at least one more block!)

She sewed all the blocks together and then sewed the blocks into rows.  She helped me pin baste it and then it was time for me to quilt it.

Here's the proud quilter holding her first quilt! I am so proud of her :).

I think her smile tells you how she feels :).

Here we are holding our quilts - now all I have to do is baste and quilt mine!

In addition to the quilt, she made the pillowcase dress for her doll (she learned how to zig zag) and the pillow for her doll (she learned how to turn and stuff).

Here we are together. The big quilt behind her is Tree Party that I made for her last year.  Now my 5 year old grandson has decided he wants to learn to sew. We're choosing a pattern for him and then it's back to the sewing machine :).  I am one happy Nana Girl!

Until next time,

Karen

Tree Party

I finally have a chance to share with you "Tree Party". It was presented to my granddaughter in October in honor of her 6th birthday. It ended up having 6 animals (birds and owls), 6 flowers and 6 branches. While I experimented with several new (to me) techniques, I was very pleased with the overall look of the quilt.

At first my granddaughter didn't quite know what to make of it.

But after explaining all the symbolism, I think she was pretty excited. And she found the kitty right away :)!

And she looked so cute all wrapped up in this "blanket of love".

This was my only animal with legs - LOL.

The final 6 was on the back, her label was a "6"!!