I have foolishly volunteered to make the school auction quilt this year. Two years ago, I spent a lot of time working on this quilt that was embroidered by all 400 of the kids. It took me about 6 weeks at the school sewing with each kid. Though it was lovely to introduce the kids …
So it looks like I’m working on a school auction project again this year. Don’t know how this happens. Anyway, the kids in my daughter’s third grade class had already started with a glue batik project and I made some additional squares with them last week, as you can see above. We started with this tutorial. Thinking …
The auction quilt is finally finished! I’m excited about the result, but I think for this project the process of teaching kids to sew was more important than the end result. We’ve been working on this over the course of the past two months with more than 400 children ranging in ages from three to …
I guess I’m going to write about this school auction quilt for the next month, because it’s pretty much what I’m doing with my time right now. I’ve also decided that I’m going to write more about process this year since I’ll be quilting a lot and the finished product doesn’t come so quickly. I …
I thought I’d post a bit about what we discussed in our talk yesterday at Whipstitch Fabrics. Although I’m not a fabric designer, I talked about ways that people can make their own fabric designs through different techniques. It was interesting to hear Melody and Rashida talk about their design process and how they got …
