A Quilting Bee

When my Mom was here, not only did we have fun, we got a lot accomplished as well. Several, several months ago Monica and I began working on a quilt for her. The long-term idea was for her to have a homemade quilt to take with her to college and, although we had never made one before, we started on the project. The plan was to make a denim rag quilt - easy according to veteran quilters, but Monica and I have ZERO experience - I don't sew, the extent of my experience was hemming curtains.... The first part wasn't too bad, we measured out and cut jeans into squares...150 to be exact. Then we did the same thing with some flannel material, Monica's choice was 2 shades of purple.

Well, when my Mom came earlier this month, we thought it would be the perfect opportunity to take it to the next level and start the sewing! Here's our project in pictures!

First we laid it out on the floor to get the denim pattern Monica wanted....Then we tried to set up our sewing machine - 45 minutes later we called Ann Powers, who just opened a new quilt shop in town, and cried for help. Thanks to Heartsong Quilts, we sat down later that day to a much nicer borrowed machine and the work began! From here on out Monica and I were not much help - Mom spent the next couple days sewing while we handed her squares and did any non-skilled labor that was required.Here was the very first completed row - 1o squares across - only 15 more rows to go=)About at the half-way mark...And the almost-finished product on the flannel side.Needless to say Monica loves her quilt! We're calling it the three generation quilt=)And the finished product - here it is making a rare appearance on her bed as it is soon to be packed away into a bin labeled "Northland Baptist Bible College - Fall 2010".