I started this project 11 years ago when my friend showed me one she'd done for her brother. It inspired me and I started saving and cutting our old jeans I always saved the jeans even the ones my son ripped but I just tossed them in a box and went about life. Now that my children are a little older and entertain them selves (and even occasioanlly tidy on their own). last April I decided to buy some complimentary fabric and start coming up with something. While I was coming up with ideas my eldest daughter asked to help, she pointed to some quilts she liked on the Internet then helped me organize and create a pattern. While helping put things together she decided the quilt was to be hers when it was done and decided what colours would go where. And finishing details like backing and even the embroidered binding. I of course got to do all the sewing. I think we did a good job for our first beginning to end quilt.
I feel like my time is starting again, my children are so little but they need so much less of me, like for example I only have wipe one bottom that isnt my own and I know once she starts school in few month she'll take that duty over. I haven't felt freedom like this in 9 years and I so enjoy even these small snips of creative time even if it is plagued with interruption. My favourite and most frequent kind is when my youngest runs in to kiss me and tell me how much she loves me then dashes off to do her own thing.
