WOOT WOOT, EMMA!!!

I am so thankful for our church's youth programs! Emma is a part of a Young Womens organization and they offer a program called Personal Progress. In this program there are 8 values which are: Faith, Divine Nature, Individual Worth, Knowledge, Choice and Accountability, Good Works, Integrity and Virture. Within each value there are items of scripture study and some type of project to do. These projects are large such as making a quilt...something that would take 10 hours to complete. Emma and I started talking about her attempting a quilt several months ago when I was making a few. I showed her a few patterns she could make with the scraps I had and she decided it was something she wanted to do. At first she was really excited and had a great start. After a few hours of working on it she was tired and we put it away. She got it out several other times and worked on it a few hours at a time. In the end I am certain this took her more than 10 hours...probably more like 20 but she finally did it. I told her at the beginning that if she could piece a twin sized quilt top that I would foot the bill to have it machine quilted. I figured piecing it was hard enough for a very beginner sewer that the machine quilting might be incentive enough to finish it. 192 squares=384 triangles! WOW! I showed her how to make the half square triangles and off she went. I tried to teach her about piecing as she went and she caught on fairly well...that is not to say we didn't have to pick apart several stitches! When she was finished with the triangle squares we picked a fabric for the sashing and I helped her figure that out. I have to say she did 95% of this quilt...there were times of frustration where I stepped in and helped her out. I hope she enjoyed doing it and having me help her. She was so excited when I picked it up from the quilters, she was giddy. I did the binding on it last night and she sat with it for the rest of the night.

She did this for the value of Individual Worth...she has tons of worth!!!

So proud of her hard work!
The whole thing! I am in love with it as much as she is!
Way to go Emma!!! I love you!