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| countrymamma |
Posted - Jul 13 2005 : 06:35:04 AM
We bought our daughter (then 11) a Husky Star (husqvarna) sewing machine 4 years ago for Christmas and I taught her the basics of quilting. Since then she has made 3 wall hangings and her own quilt.
She also loves buying fat quarters, however she doesn't want to cut them. 
This fall I'm planning on teaching her more advanced quilting and applique (which she has been begging me to teach her).
Anyone else teach their daughters to quilt?
~Carol |
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| Clare |
Posted - Aug 14 2005 : 07:43:28 AM
Thank you VERY much, Tania!
**** Love is the great work - though every heart is first an apprentice. - Hafiz
Set a high value on spontaneous kindness. - Samuel Johnson****
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| Tatiana |
Posted - Aug 14 2005 : 07:36:58 AM
The name of the book is Stitches and Pins; A Beginning Sewing Book for Girls by JoAnn Gagnon and Corrie Gagnon, published by Bunkhouse Books. The Phone # to order is 1-800-337-8845. Also the web site is www.bunkhousesewing.com. This book not only has the projects I mentioned but also goes on to a simple quilt, PJ's, Skirt, vest and purse. We stopped about half way through last summer, because it was enough with six girls and three machines in my kitchen every morning. It is the best book I have found so far emphasizing sewing skills with each project.
Happy sewing school,
Tania |
| hapyhrt |
Posted - Aug 14 2005 : 03:52:36 AM
That's great to know another man who enjoys quilting! Ü Other than the former football player Rosy Greer (proberly not spelling his name correctly, sorry!) who enjoyed needlework I never really heard of anyone else. Thanks for the link, I'm off to take a look! Ü
"Think HAPPY Thoughts...any others aren't worth your time!" Ü |
| Fabulous Farm Femmes |
Posted - Aug 13 2005 : 11:16:31 PM
Nancy, thanks for the link. He is fabulous.Is he the one people refer to as "the Quilting Cowboy"? |
| Clare |
Posted - Aug 13 2005 : 09:32:52 AM
Tatiana, could you share the name. and author of the book, please? It sounds very interesting! Thanks much!
**** Love is the great work - though every heart is first an apprentice. - Hafiz
Set a high value on spontaneous kindness. - Samuel Johnson****
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| quiltedess |
Posted - Aug 13 2005 : 09:02:10 AM
Yes, I think teaching your hubby does count twice. I've always admired when husbands shop in the quilting stores with their wives and some of them even help with picking out the fabric. And SOME of the wives even LISTEN to their husbands suggestions. :-)
My favorite quilter is Ricky Tims. He even dyes his own fabrics. My dream is to go to one of the Rocky Mountain Retreat seminars he does. There is a great story about how he learned his love of quilting from his grandmother at http://www.quilttownusa.com/Town_Hall/rickytimsinterview.htm
Nancy
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| Tatiana |
Posted - Aug 13 2005 : 08:10:48 AM
I haven't taught them to quilt but I did teach them to sew. I found a great book with progressively more difficult projects and then held "sewing school" last summer for my two daughters(10 and 16). I also invited some of their friends for motivation and we had a great time for two weeks M-F in the mornings in my kitchen. They made pillowcases, teatowel aprons, book covers, drawstring laundry bags, and tote bags. I figured that was a good basic sewing education. I was really proud that this year, of her own initiative, my sixteen y/o helped to sew 175 very cute back packs for camp and even helped mentor some other girls her own age. Now I know she can sew what ever interests her without fear. I will teach her to quilt if it becomes interesting to her.
Tania in Boise |
| Fabulous Farm Femmes |
Posted - Aug 13 2005 : 01:30:04 AM
I think getting your hubby to quilt counts TWICE.
Mine used to bug me to take golf lessons so we could "be together more", I answered sweetly "as soon as you take quilting lessons, Dear" and you can pretty much guess that hasn't been brought up again. |
| hapyhrt |
Posted - Aug 11 2005 : 12:36:54 PM
proberly doesn't count but I taught my hubby to quilt! He had watched me and must have thought it looked like fun so once he was used to working the sewing machine he went to the fabric store and picked out some "bright" fabrics, cut them up and made a nine patch quilt with sashings (borders). Then sat down to do some quilting which impressed the heck out of me! LOL We still have his quilt and love to snuggle under to watch TV on a cold winters evening.
I've made many quilts having taught myself they range from very primitive to hand appliqued which took first place at our county fair! I was so disappointed that they gave out cardboard ribbons for the quilts and yet large silk ribbons for pies and baked goods. All my life I had dreamed of winning a blue ribbon, the cardboard one just wasn't the same and after that haven't entered any other quilts in fairs. :(
"Think HAPPY Thoughts...any others aren't worth your time!" Ü |
| quiltedess |
Posted - Aug 11 2005 : 10:05:22 AM
Teresa:
How sweet! You are a good mom!
And welcome to the forum!
Nancy |
| teresa |
Posted - Aug 11 2005 : 07:47:01 AM
My 20 year old daughter wanted to learn but didn't have the time or patience until she got married and became pregnant. During this time we made a baby quilt together. I cut, she sewed, I ironed. It was so fun to do togeter and she was so proud of her quilt. She did a perfect job and needless to say, her quilt looked wonderful wrapped around her newborn son!
The best is yet to come! |
| Kim |
Posted - Jul 17 2005 : 10:56:24 AM
Will do Susan! I'm going to try and head over that way in August as my family reunion (dad's side) is always the first weekend.
farmgirl@heart
Be at peace with yourself and the rest will follow |
| atwell |
Posted - Jul 16 2005 : 11:40:19 AM
kim, Its about the only kind of pressing that goes on here..!! my mom's got professional pressers at her house!!!!and you better stop by ...when you are in the neighborhood...!!
susan
FatQuarterQuiltFarm
Long Arm Machine
Quilting ~and~
Fabric Flea Market |
| QuiltingQueen |
Posted - Jul 16 2005 : 09:57:38 AM
My daughter wanted to learn to quilt like Mom when she was seven, so I cut the pieces for her and helped her mark the stitching lines, and she pieced a little doll quilt top by hand in shades of soft pink. She didn't quilt for a long time after that, but she sewed little purses and has always been very artistic.
When she was fifteen (in 2003) she saw some lime green and navy batik fabric and wanted to make a wall hanging from it. She liked comtemporary colors and stars. I'm into antiques and a more vintage style, but I agreed to it because she was so excited about the fabric and a new project. We found a pattern for a nine-patch within a nine-patch...five solid blocks and four nine-patches...that she and I both liked. She made the nine-patch blocks from the lime-and-navy batik and a solid navy with gold stars. For the solid blocks, she picked out a lime batik with subtle ferns in it. Very bright colors. There are two borders around the edge. When it was all pieced, we picked out old quilt block patterns and used the designs to quilt the five solid blocks in navy thread. We quilted the corner blocks with the lines from King's Star, Caesar's Crown, Rolling Pin Wheel, Flower Star, and we used Cross Roads in the middle. It made a really nice combination of the old and the new. It was fun because she did all of the piecing by hand, and I hand quilted all of it. I embroidered the names of the patterns for the individual blocks in lime green on the navy star backing when we finished. It hangs above her headboard (she's 17 now), and it's a combined project that we had a lot of fun making together. |
| Kim |
Posted - Jul 16 2005 : 09:31:25 AM
Susan, ROFL! Cat-butt pressing is amazing isn't it! I will have to visit you next time I go to my mom's in Fremont.
farmgirl@heart
Be at peace with yourself and the rest will follow |
| atwell |
Posted - Jul 15 2005 : 1:54:45 PM
No daughters to teach.... but my cats LOVE to press my fabric!!You know the cat-butt pressing methood!!!!!
susan
FatQuarterQuiltFarm
Long Arm Machine
Quilting ~and~
Fabric Flea Market |
| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Jul 15 2005 : 1:46:41 PM
My oldest daughter is 10 and has been getting really good at knitting...I think quilting will be her next thing.
I can realate to your daughter not wanting to cut those cute fat quarters! I especially love the little stacks of coordinating vintage look fat quarters that they put together and tie with jute twine. I can't resist them!!!
Jenny in Utah
The best things in life arn't things! |
| Celticheart |
Posted - Jul 14 2005 : 9:18:13 PM
Better than that! I taught my son. He was 10 and had to come with me to a few small quilt group meetings in the evenings one winter. DH is a trucker and was gone alot that winter. I cut out 6" flannel squares for him and he made himself a quilt for his bed. I had him tie it rather than quilt it. He's 16 and uses it still.
I have since then taught my oldest daughter(29). Interesting thing was when I tried to teach her to sew when she was a teenager it was a complete disaster. Last year she decided to make a quilt and took right off. The year before she called me from Seattle and said she needed to learn to knit....socks. I said OK but told her to start with a scarf. Which she did and then taught her younger sister. Now she's made socks too.
Marcia
"I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidence of the determination to live." Vita Sackville-West
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| thehouseminder |
Posted - Jul 13 2005 : 07:01:12 AM
I wish I had a daughter to teach. 
I was lucky enough to learn from my Paternal grandmother who did everything by hand. She taught Mom too.
Now my mother and I have signed up for every Mystery Quilt club within 60 miles. We do those on machine.
I was very sick this past winter. Mom brought fat quarters of Aunt Grace fabric over and we sat together in my bedroom and pieced blocks by hand. On one of those days she said, "Honey, as long as you can still lift a needle, I know you are allright!"
Quilting is a great thing for moms and daughters to share. Give your daughter a hug for Mom and me!
Lucinda |
