A few weeks ago, my granddaughter and I made a strawberry quilt block from the new Lori Holt Farm Girl Vintage Book. 
We had a great time sewing these and then we moved on to sewing a TON of pillows for my Sewing Room Makeover. My granddaughter was a great help in sewing all of the pillows and we ended up sewing even more pillows for another room that I did a makeover in…that reveal coming soon!
I decided that we needed to do something with the quilt blocks that we had made, so I surprised my granddaughter with another quilt block…the cherry block. I made this one for her, because although she did a great job sewing the strawberry, it was a little bit difficult for her. So as a reward for all of her help, I made all of the blocks into hot pads!
I layered the hot pads with some Insul-Bright so that they would be insulated. I just quilted them with my regular sewing machine. I learned after quilting the first one to use my walking foot and it worked so much better than just using my regular foot! :) These turned out so cute, there is pink fabric on the back of the strawberry and red on the back of the cherries. I bound them with the green polka dot fabric and my granddaughter was quite excited about her new Lori Holt quilt block hot pads!
Even though she is only 9 years old…I told her that she could put them away for her trousseau! Of course I had to explain what that was to her, and she said “But, grandma…I don’t even like boys!” I told her that some day she would! :) It was grandpa that was having a hard time with this whole concept!
I love that I have a granddaughter that loves to sew. She is quite creative and loves to put colors together, I couldn’t be more proud!:)
Do you have a child or grandchild that loves to do something that you love? Spend some time together developing this talent…it will make both of you happy!
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