Little helper

 

     This little girl loves to help with the quilt- making process.  Here she is, hard at work, pressing one of the fabric selections (she pressed about five of them).  She's itching to help sew the blocks, which I suppose I'll let her try.  The sooner she starts on those 1/4" seams, the sooner she'll master them.
     We've got thirteen blocks down and twelve more to go.  I'm not crazy about the way some of them turned out. The three below are not my favorite.  If I have enough fabric left after all blocks are made, I may replace them.

     Oh, and this happened, again.

I replaced the walking foot with the embroidery foot, but something wasn't aligned properly when I tried to do a couple of test stitches.  Ah well, if you go by the change-the-needle-after-every-project rule, it was time to change it, anyway.  Thank goodness I didn't change the needle before switching out the feet! 

Ready, set, go!

     Fabric selected, check.  Fabric laundered, check.  And I'm off to the races.  Quilt pattern selected, check (sort of).  Pretty much a sampler based on the first quilt, but with a few mods as far as block patterns and finished size.

     Surprisingly, Martina selected a fat quarter bundle pretty sophisticated for a 7-year old girl- Jacobean Jewels from Red Rooster Fabrics.  I supplemented with 5 more fabrics and will be making 25 blocks.  Martina chose the Roman Rail, Churn Dash, and Friendship Star blocks.  I'll be adding Pinwheels and possibly Snowballs.
     If my calculations are correct, this will end up 63" x 63" after it's sashed and bound.  Let's hope my math is right.