Coming to visit for the summer and to assist in our booth at the Anacortes Arts & Crafts summer street festival, she had never used a sewing machine before. For most of the summer, a corner of my quilting studio was transformed into her room. A natural talent, seeing that sewing machine in its desk every day must have drawn on her curiosity and artistic talents.
Providing just a little guidance and instruction to get her started, she quickly learned to use the sewing machine, selected her quilt pattern, colors and a lovely assortment of fabrics to use. She very carefully cut out all the pieces and organized them so that she could machine piece them.
It was fun and exciting to watch her progress as she turned the little pieces into blocks, arranged the blocks into strips and pieced the strips into a quilt top. Once the quilt top was sized to her liking, she layered it with the cotton batting and backing fabric. Quickly picking up the skill of freehand machine stipple quilting and learning to maintain control of the bulk of a huge sewing project, she added a beautiful freehand swirling machine stipple quilting. She selected beautiful, vintage silk thread from one of my special thread collections for the lettering on the special label she designed and made for her quilt using my machine's advanced letter embroidery function.
She worked diligently day after day and from start to finish, the entire project took her only a little more than two weeks. Watch her incredible progress in this video.
When she wasn't in the studio making her quilt, we were out sightseeing in our beautiful Pacific Northwest - covering most of the scenic, natural highlights from the Canadian border down to Whidbey Island, and many sights in between.
What a talented young ladyl! I am so proud of my granddaughter Brittany!
