A New Quilter's Joy at Completing a Quilt Top

Here is Grace-Mary, who has never quilted before, who spent the first part of the morning helping out the group of people pin basting tops to batting and backing. She then decided she would like to try her hand at making a quilt top. By lunch time, she had put together her first quilt top, and she was excited and happy at her achievement.


After lunch, Grace-Mary decided she wanted to make a second quilt top for a comfort quilt, but she also decided she wanted to decide what blocks would make up her quilt top. With her favorite colors being purple and pink, she found sufficient blocks and a border to make this second top. Along the way, Grace-Mary learned to pin her seams for accuracy, and how to use a seam ripper to fix those occasions where she learned about right sides together when sewing.

Thanks to Patty for lending a sewing machine, as well as her expert teaching at beginning sewing.

Grace-Mary is proud of her achievements, and is looking forward to the Sherbourne quilt-a-thon where she hopes to create another quilt top or two, before she turns 12 later this spring.