Jeana’s Journal

The week of Thanksgiving was spent with our daughter and her family in another state. My daughter has become a great cook and Thanksgiving dinner was wonderful and the company unsurpassed. It was a very enjoyable week.

Several years ago our daughter began a tradition of making a quilt for each of her children as they graduated from a crib to a “big girl” bed. All went well with the first two children, but as her family has grown into nearly five children (new baby due around Christmas) it has been difficult to keep up. Daughter Number Three turned four-years-old last September and she was still without her own big girl bed quilt, so Grandma Jeana decided to help.

A few days before traveling to their house for the holiday our granddaughter requested the colors for her quilt: purple, yellow, and orange. Nothing else would do. Those particular colors are not an easy combination, but my well stocked fabric cabinets supplied the fabric (shown above). After her approval of the specified colors of fabric, I brought them along to make the over-due quilt.

With an audience of three little girls I cut, sewed, tied, and bound the quilt using the fabrics I had brought from home. Following the pattern of the other two quilts that my daughter had already made, the quilt is constructed of 6″ squares sewn together. Next I tied the quilt with plenty of mint green yarn (Foxglove Cottage Size 8 Longs/Tying Needles worked perfectly for this task) and the quilt was finally bound in a purple checked fabric.

I am somewhat embarrassed to say that this is the first quilt I have ever made that was this simple and I must say it was very satisfying to see a completed work in such a short time. The quilt is perfect, Granddaughter Number Three is thrilled, and I will do this again—soon.