No, no quilts to share this weekend. There's a very good reason. We spent the past week with two of our grandkiddies while their parents took a vacation on the coast of Oregon (which, from their photos, was pretty amazing with lots of blue sky and sunshine). We got to take the kids to their sports (basketball game and volleyball practice) and play some raucous indoor scavenger hunt games, and we even got outside on an almost-spring day for some frisbee throwing, batting practice and scooter riding. The kids have grown up so much in the two years that we have been mostly apart that taking care of them 24/7 was a breeze. They had off from school on Monday, so L and I spent a little time with a sewing project inspired by a bookmark that Bernie from Needle and Foot sent me a couple of years ago.
It was just the right project for a young sewist. Just challenging enough (all that corner turning) but quick enough to maintain interest. She did all of the sewing and most of the turning herself. In the photo she is sewing her own bookmark. Do you see the pink one off to the left? That's the one Bernie sent me.Here are all the ones L made on Monday.
The ones with the black flower print background are for her and five of her friends, the baseball one is for her brother (both have scraps from pillowcases I made them last year), the coral one is for her other grandma, and the black and red is for her mother. That one is from scraps of a vest I made for her mother nearly 30 years ago. About time I used those scraps!! The orange dots are from L's baby quilt and bed quilt.
This was a fun project. I wanted L to focus on the sewing, so I prepped the bookmarks before I left home by cutting the fabric squares and pressing on the interfacing. The whole project fit into my Singer Featherweight case for easy transport. I don't know who the originator of these bookmarks is--there are tutorials all over the internet, but they are a great project. Even if much of our reading is on a device of some sort, there are still enough paper books around for them to be useful. So thanks to whoever invented them!
I'm linking up today with Cynthia at Quilting is more fun than Housework.
I hope you have a chance to sew sometimes with a little. It's such a treat.