MYA (@ 5 and a half), PROGRESSES TO A MACHINE FOR HER SEWING.
WELCOME TO OUR CRAFT QUILTING WEBLOG.
First, let me introduce you to the youngest crafty chick in our family, Mya's 5 and a half, and today she started her first machine sewing - a chenille bag we're making together.
Apart from photos of works that I have completed, I'll be posting links to photos of exhibitions I have attended recently. There are photo from the Melbourne Quilt Show 2006,the Yokohama Quilt show 2006, the Tokyo International Quilt show in 2006 including the group I took on tour of Japan in Jan 2007, the Royal Women's Hospital Quilt Show Melbourne 2007,The Melbourne Quilt Show 2007 and the Eltham North Quilt show for Motor Neuron Disease 2007 .
Mya's love of quilting started when she was 18 months. I was making her an "I spy" quilt with wonderful colourful children's designed material. When I was trying to put it on the floor to place and arrange the order of the blocks, along she would come, chose her favourite blocks and run off with them. With me chasing her, it only encouraged the activity.
Every time I brought the finished cover out, she would wrap herself in it, so little quilting was done during daylight hours. However it was really worth it because when it finally was finished we had hours of fun playing "I spy with my little eye, all the blocks with stars/chickens/puppies/kangaroos or balloons " etc. And so she knows this quilt intimately now and still enjoys it. It has one of her Mickey Mouse sheets on the back for the backing material and it too in itself is colourful - just right for a child.
I am sure Mya will be a quilter, whenever I sat at the sewing machine, she would climb on me and stack reels of cotton one on top of the other on top of the one I had threaded in the machine - and of course, when I started the machine she would squeal with joy as the reels went flying all around the room.
She also liked cutting the fabric, drawing the lines on the material to cut the pieces and threading any leftover triangles onto a needle to make a necklace. The other thing she loved doing was colouring hexagon templates on the internet.
Mya's love of quilting started when she was 18 months. I was making her an "I spy" quilt with wonderful colourful children's designed material. When I was trying to put it on the floor to place and arrange the order of the blocks, along she would come, chose her favourite blocks and run off with them. With me chasing her, it only encouraged the activity.
Every time I brought the finished cover out, she would wrap herself in it, so little quilting was done during daylight hours. However it was really worth it because when it finally was finished we had hours of fun playing "I spy with my little eye, all the blocks with stars/chickens/puppies/kangaroos or balloons " etc. And so she knows this quilt intimately now and still enjoys it. It has one of her Mickey Mouse sheets on the back for the backing material and it too in itself is colourful - just right for a child.
I am sure Mya will be a quilter, whenever I sat at the sewing machine, she would climb on me and stack reels of cotton one on top of the other on top of the one I had threaded in the machine - and of course, when I started the machine she would squeal with joy as the reels went flying all around the room.
She also liked cutting the fabric, drawing the lines on the material to cut the pieces and threading any leftover triangles onto a needle to make a necklace. The other thing she loved doing was colouring hexagon templates on the internet.
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