Autumn makes a quilt

Every year the kids have to do something for their Social studies fair. This year it was Autumns turn after a lot of I don't know what to do she finally settled on making a quilt. She fits right in to the family with her ability to procrastinate! LOL I told her that if she waited too long it would not get done. she was like "oh it's not that hard to make a quilt..." ummm ok.

Well anyway she finally got around to doing it the last weekend before it was due. That's my girl!! Autumn had decided to do the quilt on the trail of tears. She choose this them because she and her sisters have Cherokee ancestry, Autumn's biological father was Cherokee so that is why she has such a beautiful tan. Autumn was excited about making the quilt and she had a lot of fun finding the pictures she was going to use.

I was able to get all of the fabric from my stash to make the quilt. I think I have a fabric hording problem but that is a post for another day! lol

here she is ironing the iron-on transfers. Her hands hurt afterwords with all the pressing.

 Here are close ups of the blocks after the ironing.

Now for the sewing of the blocks. She was timid at first but after a while she got into it and would go fast. She loved going fast. And like her mom pins were just things that get in the way and she did without. LOL

 Then came the dreaded unpicking. LOL Autumn did not like this part at all and she did a far amount of it when she was sewing the longer strips together. I lost my seam ripper and so had to use these scissors that are used to take out medical stitches. lol I got them from a military Dr. he opened a kit and did not use them and was going to toss them and said I could use them. I have used them a lot! I've had them over 15 years.

So she tried pinning them. She did this for a row or two but then went back to free handing them. She got the hang of it fast.

This next part was when she was trying out her markers and trying to find colors that would not bleed all over the place. she decided to go with a red and did bleed but then use a black down the middle of it. It looks very cool and so artsy.

Here it is all done. The only thing I did on the quilt was I cut most of the strips out. Cutting with the rotary cutter made her uncomfortable. I also did the binding but other then that Autumn did everything else.

We learned today that she won first place in the craft portion of the fair and that she is now going to go to the county fair. She was so excited.