Six Sisters Sewing

    Tjasa is a busy little girl who just loves quilting. It all started with overlapping pieces and stitching them together. One day I came home and found her at my machine making Barbie another blanket. Her stitches were perfectly straight with a nice seam allowance. I had no choice but to let her soar. I set her up sewing strips together. She was so fast I could not keep up with her.        Next I took two of the finished strips and laid them right sides together nesting the seams and cut her four patches to sew. She whizzed right through those while I struggled to finish my quilt.     Then came the rows. Boy was her excitement growing. Zippity-do-dah she was done. To slow her down I gave her prairie points to add before the border. Nothing hindered her, it was like a marathon.  

         So what keeps me up this rainy evening? Tatjana's interstate quilt. Our story begins with beautiful fabric  collected  from  Sweet Pea's Quilt Company  while it was downsizing.  Those dresses and purses were just waiting for a little girl with a dream.      When Tatjana gained ownership of her room with a full size bed, she soon declared need of a larger quilt. She looked for block designs that fit the vision, but in the end it was a simple square. Her tastes gravitate more to the modern with clean lines.           Armed with several yards of fabric and a ruler she went to work on a sew day with her besties. The easiest way for this 11 year old to cut her blocks was to use the 12.5" square. To start she cut about three blocks from each fabric. Her project then traveled to  Oregon for  an extended vacation. Next she had the task of arranging them. Oh what a fuss that was. It seemed that every block was touching another that was too similar. And the