Several years ago she began making a quilt style that has become very popular with her family, friends and co-workers who have young children in their lives. She calls it her "Conversation Quilt" and it's a fun way to have "conversations" with young children by making up stories or doing "I spy" activities using counting, colors, and objects.
The poem on the card that accompanies this quilt suggests lots of things to do, including "naming the critters, colors, and bugs, or snuggling together and getting big hugs."
But keeping busy with quilting has some requirements for resources - things like large spaces to lay out your projects.
And thread, of course. A big shout-out to Younger Daughter for keeping Leann in thread at Christmas and birthdays. Notice the empty spools below - those all have been emptied since the start of this year. (She makes LOTS of other quilts besides the conversation quilts.) She's probably keeping them for some new project down the road!
And, as any crafter of any medium will attest, in order to produce, one needs a "stash." This could be a stash of fabric (this isn't all of it!), yarn (my fave - in other boxes to the right), or whatever is needed to get the job done. And as former schools librarians, organization is key!
We're really having too much fun "working!"
3 comments:
So beautiful! And what a special gift for a newborn baby!
Love the idea of the conversation quilt. V. cool.
I was honored to receive one of these conversation quilts when my first daughter was born. It was a nice blanket to lay my baby on, but last summer when my little girl turned two, she was mesmerized by all the pictures. We had many conversations about each square!
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