My daughter always wants to cut, pin, or tell me what fabric (or as she says, frabric) to use when I’m quilting. She has been very interested in my fabric scrap box ever since she discovered it at the age of 2, and shortly after asked me to make her a fabric monster costume.
She and I started this project months ago. We would pull it out and work on it, little by little, as long as she was interested and then I’d put it back away for a while. I cut out several strips of batting while she dug through the scraps. She would carefully select each piece and tell me which one was going to get sewn on next.
Initially, she was telling me where each piece was going to go, but that got a bit crazy, so we did a quilt as you go method with it instead as it was much faster.
After she said there were enough strips, I gave her a few options on how we could put it together. She asked for colored strips in between. I took her to the store to find backing. She choose a fuzzy, pink fabric that has a bubble wrap-like texture. Not something I would have chosen, but man oh man, is it soft. It’s the coziest quilt in the house.
Quirky Quilts 