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.
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.
7 comments:
that is so nice that you got to spend such quality time with the grandchildren - it sounds like you had a fun time
Those book marks are such a clever idea - I saw a few around at Christmas. And a nice easy project for a younster, she did a great job. xx
Sounds like a wonderful time with your grands! I love the bookmarks - perfect project for someone just learning. She'll have fun giving those to her friends, too!
How precious! They’ll remember this time and the fun they have with you.
I'm so glad you got to spend quality time with the Grands - what fun! I look forward to teaching my youngest granddaughter to sew. Her mother never would let me teach her, and now she regrets it - lol! Those bookmarks are the perfect project, and she did a great job on them. How neat you were able to incorporate scraps from her mother's vest from 30 years ago!
What a great idea Janine! I bet that was a fun project for you and L - brilliant move to have it so well prepped. The kids' attention spans aren't all that long and if cutting and fusing were the starting point, she may have been done 'sewing' by the time that was complete! Such a smart grammy she has!
Happy to see my little bookmark spurred a sewing activity. :-)
There is nothing like spending time with the grands! How special that you were able to use specific leftovers for some of them. The one for your daughter, though. How cool is that!
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