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This project was from Jen in Michigan. She likes to sew cloths for her kids! Isn’t that the cutest dress!

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All year long our quilt guild collects baby quilts to give out to our local charitable agencies.  Once a year we invite local charitable agencies to come to our quilt guild meeting and accept our quilts.

Last year we handed out at least 200 quilts, all made by the members of our guild, to 8 local charities. It’s very rewarding to see their faces as they take these quilts!

This year we had a ”quilt bee” at our meeting and “Baby Quilts” had volunteers cutting kits, labeling quilts, and sewing quilts. Our quilt guild is so big (150ish members)! It was fun to sit and talk with these helpful members.

So, I thought I would tell you my story about my daughters and sewing! 

When my daughters called to ask if we could make a skirt I was so excited that they wanted to sit down and sew. I used to sew, way back when we use to make all our clothes, and thought this would be an easy project.   We worked all afternoon trying to make one of those skirt cover-ups for bathing suits.  Being together, chatting and sewing was fun - even if our project ended up a little rough!  Later, Melanie came back and figured out how to make one! Way to go Melanie!!

Last week my oldest daughter Melissa, called and want to know if I would make some burp cloths and baby blankets for some of her pregnant friends.  I thought what a great idea and she could make the burps and maybe start to enjoy sewing a little.

When I sew, I like to have a old movie on or some rock and roll music.  So I put on the “Eagles” for background noise and luckily Melissa new all the songs cause she was singing, dancing and sewing! While we sewed we talked about grandkids, shopping, sports, etc….  I had her using the rotary cutter, scissors, sewing machine and even ironing! She’s a very good student and I bet next time she could make her own.

Do you have similar stories?  Please feel free to share them with me. I’d love to here them because it’s never to late to play with your kids!

This is Girlie Girl - she’s on my bed, where’s is dark, cool and quiet.

 She also awarded 6 other quilters for this award and you can view them here: Quilt Theraphy and wow - these gal’s are in a league of their own!

Tea Party Quilt - Mix and match the fat quarters of the Mary Engelbreit’s Friends & Flowers collection. The quilt was designed by Karen DuMont.

These are pieced blocks surrounded by a border of appliqued flowers set the scene for a gathering of girlfriends.

Skill rating: Intermediate (Scrappy blocks with a flower border)
Quilt size: 56″ x 56″
Block count 20 @ 10″ square

Purchase your kits here: Tea Part Quilt Kit

Included in kit - Fabric only to make this quilt -
25 fat quarters (enough a for pillow too!)
1 - 7/8 yard white
1 yard back polka dot

Not included in kit:
Quilt Mazagine
3 - 1/2 yards fabric for backing

 Here’s some pictures from my garden and thanks to my husband help it’s almost weed free!

I made a holiday quilt in July!! Now, my goal is to get it get it finished by Christmas.  Here it is the top is done! I’m going to embellish the white snowballs with embroidery and beading.

The pattern is Charlotte from Me & My Sister and the fabric I used was “Smores“. You can purchase kits here: Charlotte.  This pattern was easy to do and the top took me about 5 hours to make from cutting to assembling!

This pattern is charm pack friendly so try one of the other collections! Instead of white use a color.