When I was 14 years old my grandmother started teaching my sister and I about sewing with the goal of each of us making a quilt. We each got a sewing basket with colored paper coupons my Grams made up and each sewing session we could pick a coupon and it would be for a sewing tool or other items or a demonstration. I quickly fell in love sewing and the three of us spending time togehter. I don't even know how many quilts I've made. We made a bunch of baby quilts out of scrap fabric and donated them to a local charity for single mothers. I haven't done much quilting in the recently but my sister & I made a rag quilt for our mom 7-8 years. I do have a log cabin project that I started 27 years ago and I pick it up here and there...I'll finish it when I'm retired lol.
Our grandmother joined the New England Quilt Guild and they would only kids 18 and younger compete. In the four years that I could compete I entered five quilts and all one first place blue ribbons. Thank you Grams for being a great & fun teacher and for making me redo my mistakes. My Grams won numerous ribbons of all sorts but often she'd get Best of Show; has a quilt in a museum and had one feature in a magazine...she's truely amazingly talented.
We also made clothes; I still have a jacket from 30 years ago that we all made but of different fabrics plus we had our custom labels. I attached a picture of it; I would attach a quilt picture but it's behind a bin of MLPs. I need to do some reorganizing in my small apartment.
I think my favorite part was when we went to the fabric store and selected fabrics for our projects.
Missed out on the Spring Bonnet Contest this year but I'm so excited for next year!!! It was great to see all the creative bonnets and displays. The knitted ones were really cool, that's one thing that I didn't learn from my Grams...seriously what couldn't she do!